#oh fuck.

[trans-cuchulainn]

sometimes i think i'm okay about láeg/lóeg literally meaning "calf" but figuratively being a term of endearment meaning "beloved" or "favourite" and i'm like. that's fine. totally okay for him to be called that. i'm normal about it.

and then i consider that in cú chulainn's lament for fer diad when he directly address fer diad as "beloved", that is the word he uses. a lóeg.

and on the same page: a lóeg, a phopa láeg, help me cut the gae bolga out of him, take this message for me, be there with me, be the only person i trust in this moment when i am falling apart,

and his name is fucking beloved

and fer diad is beloved and fer diad is fucking dead and láeg is fucking culpable because he helped and i don't even know where i'm going with this it's just something about being loved as an act of violence i think. beloved as a weapon. a bloody favourite and a mirror and a double and

[grechsblog]

oh.

oh.

[stereax]

[aqqleshiqqing-archive]

omfg

usually i poke around and joke like ooh my husband red lalala

but like

what if?????💍?????

[finalfantasymusicdaily]

Adventure's End Arranged by Tadayoshi Makino

[stabbyfoxandrew]

Guys I'm scared. I tried to turn my laptop on and it wouldn't come on?

[trickarrows-bishop]

why would lilith hurt my babygirl :( (ava)

i acc love the character of lilith. like although she became a villain in season two- it fits so well. she's so easily manipulated into falling for adriel's trance- all for the pat on the back that she wanted so desperately from her mother. in season one she fell down this rabbit hole of hating ava because she took "what was rightfully mine" (the halo). and why did she want the halo? for approval from her mother. from a young age she's obviously felt as though her only purpose in life was to be the halo barer, that way she will almost, finally, be accepted as the daughter of her mother. so when she doesn't get the chance to become the warrior nun of course she's going to hate ava, of course she's gonna test her in the worst way possible. to her in the beginning of season one, ava having the halo is a complete mistake. then at the end of season one, beginning of season two, lilith is still falling into that hole of desperate approval from her mother, or anyone who cares for her, even- that's why she was probably wanting to find mary so bad. that way she would have someone to talk to that could possibly understand her situation and not see her like a monster. but she fails in that and she fails in being able to even have a conversation with her mother. because to her mother she's nothing but a failure. all she's ever known is that approval she's so desperate for but she won't be getting that anymore. not from her mother.

[lightthepathwithalantern]

*that was a lot of gore and screaming*

*oh shit, queens so mad she's started an earthquake*

-@kingdom-mechanics

*(covers the child's eyes)*

(Frozen in shock, but still very intrigued)

[bossfight-messages]

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what.

[infiniteelsinore]

The powerful eroticism of taking a shower and getting in a bed with fresh sheets.

[dirtyoldmanhole]

I'm not a horrible stickler for timelines and ages, but for this gunter slow burn fic I needed a few scenes to be nailed down to specific ones (eg, so Xander talking with Gunter early on about prisoner!Corrin wouldn't be too bizarre). here's my headcanon for the ages and scenes, for the curious.

(fully realize some of them are non canon and I don't particularly care :P)

so here's the part that makes my heart hurt: I'm also trying to figure out the rough time that garon torched gunter's village.

let's say gunter was a knight from his teens to something like ... 32; long enough to make a name for himself because the canon line is he was a "well known & respected knight (throughout nohr)". most young men in their prime serve armies worldwide about that age range, and i could see him establishing (essentially) an officer's authority - it'd explain why garon himself trusted him enough to offer him dragon blood.

let's say he was retired/married from 32 to .... 43. long enough to fall deeply in love, have several children, truly settling down and being happy.

(this also raises the point -- what made garon wait until after gunter was married/retired to offer him dragon blood? was garon getting desperate from the concubine wars, and running out of other people he trusted? was he getting jealous of his contemporaries having a happier life than himself? pure spite?)

i'm trying to figure out how, tastefully, gunter handled people knowing about the massacre (if anyone does). what even people know about it. is nohr unstable enough that a random village going up in flames makes most people shrug, or are they straight up oblivious? if one of gunter's old army buddies asks 'how's the wife?' when gunter comes back to nohr's army, how does he respond?

(i go back and forth as to him just replying back with an empty "we're not in contact anymore." versus "she died". the first is not a lie, but also, misleading enough that people won't ask over, given they're assuming divorce, not death. there's a fuck load of men that throw themselves back into work to avoid thinking about personal life, and i do wonder if he'd be able to outright say those words until decades later.)

(i also wonder if garon also orders gunter to stay silent about the village destruction. all 'oopsies, bandits must have attacked it' being the official story.)

let's say he spends from 43-48 in a very bleak mental space. throws himself back into work in the army, while living on pure hatred. i can see this era being where he gets his "extremely strict" reputation, given he's purely living to be a sword to be used against garon at some point, and is likely near obsessive about arming himself with ways to take him down.

and then 48 is when i headcanon him being ordered to the northern fortress. five years is short enough for the hatred to be still front of mind, but also just enough that he can be faced with corrin as a child, and recognize that she had no part in garon's crimes.

edit: see, now today, i'm leaning towards him saying the "not in contact" line because his kids are dead too - it's a little more of a cover to get people to fuck off, and would ultimately raise less suspicion since everyone likely assumes his wife's taken the kids with her. he's been such a family man i can't help but see some of the old army buddies thinking it's weird he comes back when he's got other reasons to live for. (oof.)

[smoreal]

ITS FRIDAY,??????

[rememberthelaughtermp3]

just realised it sounded like I was trying to hit on my bassist earlier today I literally wasn't I was just trying to make a joke abt mikey way 😭

[trashy-greyjoy]

really love dynamics that are like 'it honestly doesn't matter if you view them as romantic or platonic, the point is that they love each other. the type of love is inconsequential, all that matters is that it's there'. gotta be one of my favorite genders.

[monsoon-of-art]

[lady-raziel]

i'm sorry but this is the only submission to this trend that i'll consider giving any thought to