#text post compilation

[victorianlonging]

our flag means death + text posts

[sparring-spirals]

Continuing on this post, actually, my personal headcanons on "How everyone in the Mighty Nein deals with Yasha continuously insisting she knows the Sending spell despite... logistics."

Yasha: She believes it, or shes pulling the LONGEST prank ever.

Beau: She's vaguely sure that's not how magic works but also its HER WIFE, YASHA. she could do anything. love u babe. 😘

Veth: She started this joke and as we all know, You Have To Commit To The Bit. She's either roping Caleb into, or singlehandedly trying to invent new magic just so she doesn't ever have to reveal the truth.

Caleb: Caleb 100% knows how the spell does and doesn't work. Caleb also would rather die than rat out Veth on this. Like I said, they're probably actively working to set up some kind of comms so they never have to answer this question.

Jester: Jester has a vague understanding of the spell rules, but also but this tiefling Literally Invented A God through sheer will. Do you think SHE'S going to assume Yasha can or can't do something based on how the magic SHOULD work? Yasha's great. Maybe she DOES have Sending.

Fjord: Fjord is pretty sure that's not how the spell works but also he's got like. Some other stuff to worry about rn okay. Im sure Yasha is doing great. One person going rogue with Sending is enough. oh fuck is that ukatoa again oh god oh shi-

Caduceus: Again, he absolutely knows she doesn't have it, but he finds it hilarious to engage in conversations so cryptically that he can play along with it. He also 100% knows that Veth is panicking and trying to get something working for the long term and will probably help. Eventually. Look, he's hanging out at home for a while, he deserves some harmless fun.

EDIT: SORRY, STILL OUT OF PRACTICE INCLUDING KINGSLEY ON THESE, but also like Kingsley? Kingsley is absolutely just vibing. These people are SO fucking weird. Maybe that buff angel lady does have a Sending spell. Why not.

EDIT PT 2: Shit, also, Essek! Essek is, much like Caleb, aware but keeping his silence. this is because he is supporting Caleb, and also because Veth scares him. And because him trying to tell Beau her wife can't do something seems like a dangerous idea.

Plus, he knows the Mighty Nein. If anyone can do that, its one of them.

[moonlipgloss]

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 5

[kyouka-supremacy]

Happy birthday Akutagawa

[softhe4rted]

on loneliness jenny slate / japanese breakfast, posing for cars / corinne von lebusa, big glow / dadushin / alejandra pizarnik, tr. me / fka twings, home with you / avocado_ibuprofen / fiona apple, left alone / anne carson, “the anthropology of water”, plainwater / kiki smith, free fall / alejandra pizarnik, diaries

[samglyph]

Has someone made an actual compilation of Arthur’s….Sounds? I feel like the malev fans keep joke posting about it but I want to subject my non malevolent mutuals who haven’t blocked the tag yet to the experience.

[marbleboa]

Yeah sorry that’s my emotional support bastard

[albertbreasker]

MY GUILT IS AN OCEAN FOR ME TO DROWN IN.

Slaughterhouse, Yves Olade / Fallout 4 / Apocalypse Logic, Elissa Washuta / Little Red Riding Hood Addresses the Next Wolf, Brenna Twohy / The Song of Achilles,  Madeline Miller / Altered Carbon (2018) / Mercy, Yves Olade / Unknown / Crime and Punishment,  Fyodor Dostoevsky / Everything Everything, Nicola Yoon

[fishsticksart]

graduation 🎓🎊

i did it and made it through, onwards to bigger and better things

[Next Up Forever, AJR // Night Ride, Siemen Dijkstra // Finale (We Can't Wait to See What You Do Next), AJR // S9 Ep23, The Office // You're On Your Own, Kid, Taylor Swift // You're On Your Own, Kid, Taylor Swift // You're On Your Own, Kid, Taylor Swift // As It Was, Harry Styles // The Great War, Taylor Swift // Comic, @shhhitsfine // Fifteen, Taylor Swift // I Wrote This for You, Iain S. Thomas // Enchanted, Taylor Swift // tumblr user @francisforever2014 // Castle on the Hill, Ed Sheeran // tumblr user @jupiter-suggestion // Where'd All The Time Go?, Dr. Dog // tumblr user @dearalexandra-deactivated201409 // Night Changes, One Direction]

[galedekarios]

i loaded up my only pre-epilogue save to try the freecam gale's updated proposal scene and

i know i've said this before but i really hate that the game is forcing a character, who romanced gale and dissuaded him at every single turn from using the orb, to do just that at the very end.

no, gale, i'm not plotting anything. the game, however, is forcing me and my character.

i hate it so much.

[aphel1on]

3zun adjacent text post meme

bonus:

[transmascutena]

[indiangp]

distraction amongst the F1 silly season ?

[moonlipgloss]

posts that make me want to rip my heart out part 4

[ladybugboots]

[ezramire]

I think some often-overlooked context for gideon's sacrifice at the end of GTN is that, if gideon survives, harrow asked her to return to drearburh.

of course, harrow's plan of I'll-hold-the-lyctor-off-you-and-cam-jump-into-the-sea is dogshit, not going to work etc. of course gideon is a perpetual Good Girl, a butch in shining armor--she's a saint. she's jesus christ. I don’t mean at all to undermine her selflessness, but in her panic i can't help but think the threat of the ninth house made the choice much simpler.

let's go back to the beginning of GTN to the amalgam of everybody's worst hometown:

gideon the ninth, chapter 1

gideon's entire life has been a series of escape attempts. in canaan house her relationship to harrow undergoes a metamorphosis, but behind her is eighteen years of trying--relentlessly--to run from a cold dark place that she is beholden to. (whenever beholden comes up in this series at least 8 alarms go off in my head and i drop whatever i'm holding).

gideon the ninth, chapter 4

I think aiglamene understands drearburh is inherently soul-killing in a way that harrow does not. harrow genuinely loves her house (which, to her, is the Tomb). gideon was never allowed to love the ninth house--it rejected her at every opportunity. harrow, however, threw herself into it wholesale. she had nothing else.

skip to the pool scene. harrow receives absolution and a emotionally charged tender forehead kiss (top 10 lesbian baptisms of all time). they are finally on the same side, out from under drearburh's shadow. they can trust each other. then harrow, with her seventeen years of pining, obsession, and isolation, asks gideon something truly fucking awful:

gideon the ninth, chapter 35

in harrow's mind, the locked tomb (specifically) has served as her reprieve. it is The Thing For Which She Suffers It All, and so it must be good. harrow sees herself as the thing that poisoned gideon, because she IS the ninth house, and she hates herself. I genuinely don't think harrow understands the depth of cruelty in this ask at all. in harrow's mind she is saving gideon and protecting The Body.

and as cytherea bears down on them, harrow reminds her:

gideon the ninth, chapter 37

if harrow sacrifices herself, gideon owes her AND gets abandoned. gideon has to go back and protect the tomb, back to a life she could not bear long before she had ever seen the sea and the sky, before kind-hearted house scions and princesses with swords. the chains would be slapped on. gideon would not get out twice. not even in a box.

gideon can die neatly and heroically, like a protagonist in a comic book—she can save harrow, save camilla, get vengeance for lost friends, carry out the last wish of jeanmarry and isaac, who she so badly let down—or she can live and return to drearburh.

gideon the ninth, chapter 37

gideon the ninth, chapter 37 (final line before the epilogue in harrow's POV).

of course she chooses the fence.