#musings*

[gentlebliss]

[mascula-sappho]

Aren't plushies beautiful? They were created so a sick child had something to hold. They were created so an adult living alone might have a friend to keep them company. They were created for a teenager to clutch to her chest as she cries. They were created to accompany a college student to his geology classes. They were created not for any material benefit, they don't change tires, but to be loved.

They were created for the purpose of love.

[lipikkawrites]

-@lipikkawrites

[butcharium]

A butch (almost) every day ▪️24/09/2024

I am a simple woman, sometimes all I need to be happy is finally acquiring a shirt that makes me look a bit like a dish towel!

[johannestevans]

Idk at the end of the day i struggle with a lot of marketing that tries to be like "why should everybody read your book?" Bc like. Most people shouldn't read my book. There are a lot of books in the world. If you like what i do, you can read mine, but I'm not gonna convince you

Like I'll tell you about my books and what's in them, and if they sound appealing, great, you should read them! But if they don't… You shouldn't? You should read something you like better. Why waste your time on something you won't enjoy?

It's part of why i get frustrated when people prescribe reading my work as a duty to Representation of autism or transness etc bc its like. This is entertainment, my guy. Its for fun. You shouldn't have to make yourself read it like a kid made to eat vegetables

You can read books for whatever reason you like, but i feel a bit sad for people who try to read my work and become frustrated with it, esp bc many people DO like it. And its like. Yeah. What they like about it might be stuff you hate. That's okay and also normal! It's healthy!

[mirthlenore]

Oh, how I wish I could change my form at will.

[jaggedjawjosh]

A lizard sees each sunbeam as a gift, teaching us that true wealth is found in the warmth of gratitude.

[conundrumoftime]

Nothing wrong at all with not understanding why people are into Haladriel or why people are interested in TROP Celeborn, but it would be nicer all round if people could do the traditional fandom etiquette thing of keeping character/ship hate out of the relevant character/ship tags, tbh.

[marandsviet]

Courage is the flame that refuses to die, flickering softly but steadily, even in the wildest winds of doubt.

[lxvesick-museum]

I would defy the Gods if it meant I could be with you, my darling. I don't care what fate has in store for me. All I know is that you were written for me, and I for you.

[swiftspot]

whatever you do DONT think about how ford must’ve felt seeing “old man mcguckett” for the first time and realizing what he drove his closest friend to. don’t imagine the guilt and horror of his actions eating away at him even as he tries to make amends. yeah just don’t lol

[mindfulhavens]

I once read a wish that stuck with me:

“I hope that someday, somebody wants to hold you for twenty minutes straight, and that’s all they do. They don’t pull away. They don’t look at your face. They don’t try to kiss you. All they do is wrap you up in their arms, without an ounce of selfishness in it.”

―Adrienne Shelly

Sometimes, a person’s words can feel like a hug.

Some people are particularly good at this.

[lafamilledelioncourt]

I see so much discourse about Lestat fans or Armand fans, and while I think choosing is a lil silly between murderous vampiric hellspawn, why don't yall just call it what it really is?

You can either forgive the gaslighting family annihilator or the manic ACTUAL mother fucker...

[butcharium]

A butch (almost) every day ▪️23/09/2024

I've been feeling a bit like this lately

[johannestevans]

The thing that's so funny about geralt and dandelion is that dandelion likes to straddle that man and go "why are you feeling sorry for yourself?"

And geralt, feeling sorry for himself, is like "I'm NOT feeling sorry for myself!"

And then dandelion sucks him off ♥️

I love how nenneke is like "i don't know why you're friends with him, you have nothing in common" and then seconds later geralt and dandelion are bonding over how they have similar taste in booze and studies

The thing about geralt that's funny and tragic in turn is that he's got so many scruples even though he tries so hard to be neutral and hard the way he was taught and obviously he feels very deeply

And a lot of the time he's actually surprisingly straightforward about the beauty or hope he sees in the world? People get distracted by how grumpy he seems or how flat and disaffected his face and voice seem

But he TELLS people a lot of this outright

He wants to kiss yennefer in front of everyone at the party. He turns into pretty women and admires fine clothing even though he doesn't want to wear it. He loves his horse and he loves food and drink and he loves good company - and despite his cynicism he carries hope in him

And he doesn't actually hide that from most people… EXCEPT dandelion. Dandelion he often puts on this pretense of being a lot grumpier than he is. Dandelion has to lecture him about learning about the world or seeing the beauty in it even tho geralt normally DOES that

and the reason is twofold

Partly is because geralt enjoys dandelion making a fool of himself trying to teach geralt things and getting corrected by passers by

But also like. If they were BOTH sincere, it would get Too Intense Very Quickly

And i think it's delightful that like. People have this idea of dandelion as extremely fake because he's a fop or because he talks a lot or because he's obsessed with himself, but he genuinely is tremendously sincere - he genuinely does love everything, especially himself

But with geralt dandelion is at his MOST cynical, because it's not really a performance of a particular act, it's more a specific performance of his own personality for someone who knows and loves him well, rather than performing songs or stories or bardic tradition

And in contrast, geralt, who is generally a quite straightforward and honestly emotive man - albeit in the (cough autistic cough) Mutant way he is, abstracts a lot of his feelings and feigns more ignorance and cynicism than he has in dandelion's company

With yen geralt is honestly agonisingly sincere in a way that yen often has no idea what to do with, and the tragedy w them both is that they both feel with such immensity that both of them struggle to put the depth of their feelings for one another into words

It's not that his intimacy with dandelion is free of that struggle, but like. Yen strips right through his attempts to play it cool, whereas dandelion normally plays into them.

And thats why their threesomes are so good

[aparticularbandit]

Wait.

In the trailer when Agatha tries to use her magic and finds she can't.

She's wearing clothes isn't she.

But isn't she.

Isn't she actually nude in the show when that happens.

Is this one of those moments where they went back and "okay Kathryn now do it with your clothes on so we can throw this in a trailer"

"Kathryn this is Disney you have to be wearing clothes for this"