#tangentally related

[batcavescolony]

the difference between Haymitch and Katniss's narration is so funny. Haymitch would give us everyone's social security number if he knew them, while Katniss wouldn't even tell us her mom's name.

[gltchghst]

i made this and its gotta be for someone other than me right

[harpygon]

when Paris shot Diomedes' foot and bragged about it I stopped reading to complain at my book about how he should stop and isn't all that and then Diomedes immediately went and did the same thing, that felt very nice.

^wonderful sentiment at 11.505 (trans. Wilson)

[alphaketoglutaricacid]

The bell shuro gives laios is such an elegant piece of symbolism. Laios immediatly stows it away but it's jingling at the bottom of his bag (and mind) the whole time as the crew enters the most isolated section of the story.

Rescuing Falin was the first thing shuros ever wanted or asked for and Laios return pushes him to be more and more proactive abt his desires. On Shuros side, its constantly ringing, out of his control, and annoying to him and everyone around him. Despite being mortified w intruding on other people, he keeps it on him even when he sleeps. They both almost throw it away several times.

Thru the story its a little ambiguous what shuro feels about laios. IMO the dead giveaway is where he puts that bell:

At his heart!

[selfportrait27]

HD version of a classic Ween photo (probably AI upscaled). 1992-ish.

[helvidius]

happy barricade days!

[official-time-loop-posts]

Um, actually any game can be read as a timeloop if you savescum hard enough 🤓

you’re so real for that actually

also most games (especially rpgs) can be time loops if there’s a grinding element to it. just repeat the same activity over and over and over again until you’re finally strong enough. you can finally leave. but can you? you’ll have to do it again once you find another enemy that’s just a bit too strong for you to beat. then you’ll have to grind again. and again. and again.

[gristlegrinder]

extremely normal revenant commander with an extremely normal mists entity in their brain. it’s fine

[purple-egg-yolk]

So Rushu is actually my self insert character. I called Brandon Sanderson up and said “heyyy you should totally write me into your books” and he said “okieee what a good idea” and then added Rushu.

[loveelizabeths]

i think the word “settling” is often given a bad wrap in relationships.

to settle with someone - i don’t think it has to mean something boring, or mundane. to love someone so profusely you are ready to lay down and spend the rest of your life with them, it’s saying: “i don’t care who or what else is out there, i am choosing you. there is enough love, wonder, and warmth here, i do not need to seek anything else.”

you fell in love with them, and like falling, it was natural, passive, spontaneous, it happened to you. you stood there, you were engulfed in love.

but we don’t just want to fall in love with someone, we don’t just want the falling. we want the love even after the euphoria fades. we want the natural cycle, the mundane, the domesticated routine, the living beside each other. because we didn’t just love our partner then, we love them now, and tomorrow. it’s not about finding the right person—we learn to love the person we have found.

and why are we as a society so obsessed with finding the “right” person? we live in a culture that is obsessed with perfect compatibility and optimisation and it often leads to disappointment and unfair comparison.

instead of looking for the perfect partner, the perfectly right partner, what if we could shift our focus to being with someone who isn’t overly wrong for us?

someone who is kind, patient, respectful, compassionate and who is willing to work through challenges with you.

perfect compatibility isn’t a preset, it’s something you build through trust. there is no perfect person for you, because you yourself are not perfect. there is no immediate compatibility, and even if there was, it doesn’t stay that way forever.

you find something better than perfect, you can find something real.

sustaining love through time, effort, energy, willingness, and the constant demand of wisdom and patience. it is as beautiful as the falling in love. it is what keeps the love long through the years.

falling in love with our person is a happenstance, but loving them is a decision. and there is so much beauty in that.

[dividedindiversity]

One thing I think the Netherlands does better than the area of Germany I now live in, is that in the Netherlands, supermarkets will usually have a set of glass recycling bins outside, while in the place where I live now in Germany they will be in random places. (Sometimes in the Netherlands there will be a random glass recycling bin somewhere as well- but eh) I prefer the Dutch way because I'm going grocery shopping at some point anyways, so I can get rid of my empty jars just as I'm getting new ones. This had me thinking-

[aeb-art]

finally doodled a cover for my silly little playlist tee-hee~

[ava-amelia]

Every fic you ever wrote about your blorbo came true and they experienced all of it. They are about to come for you.

[everymeloneveryday]

I'm thinking of Melon and Legoshi's relationship again specifically in the early pre-"evil does exist" stages they make me so ill. Legoshi wants to save him soooo bad.

it's soooooo funny bc up until that point, legoshi HAD saved everyone (excluding the shishigumi boss who he was too much of a baby to ACTUALLY mortally wound). as far as legoshi is concerned, Melon is just another Riz. someone who, if he could manage to empathize and reason with, would at least Reconsider his actions and turn himself in for treatment. which is of course exactly what melon laughs at him for 💖 because he sucks and has spent the last dozen or so years reinforcing the same noxious beliefs in himself over and over and over again 💖

though to be fair to legoshi, Melon IS similar to riz in a lot of ways. it's because of this that I believe a loss of taste is linked directly to feelings of trauma and guilt, which, well. you don't actually learn how early on in melons life he'd been isolated and assaulted, we just know it'd been happening for a long time, and while he was Very Young. while Melon himself says his lack of taste is because of his mixed genetics, there is no actual proof that that's the case. also both Melon and Legoshi are unreliable narrators LOL neither of them know shit for fuck about the world in two entirely different ways.

anyway legoshi shouldve spent more time with his grandpa and volunteered at that mixed daycare too, then he really would've been able to meet more like himself and his mom. ALAS!! he and haru BOTH wanted to be soooo nicies and save the world's most miserable 24yo because he just so happens to be a representative of the Potential they want to bring into the world, unaware of course that he took his trauma and doubled down on the worst parts of what others saw him as.

[mentallyillcaterpillar]

Maturing is realizing that listening to the Wicked soundtrack on a regular basis as a child is what led to you becoming the disaster lesbian obsessed with enemies to lovers that you are today.

[yeah-thats-probably-it]

We often talk about how romantic the Joy in the Morning garden scene is, with very good reason, but it REALLY jumps out at you if you listen to the audiobooks. Jonathan Cecil’s Jeeves voice is very consistent, so when he reads “The cool air. The scent of growing things. That is tobacco plant which you can smell, sir,” you can HEAR how there’s really no way to deliver that line in a way that isn’t noticeably more expressive than Jeeves’ normal baseline. It’s the punctuation. The full stop between “the cool air” and “the scent of growing things” tells you that a certain amount of inflection is required.

Man is flirting so hard it’s disrupting his normal speech patterns