#the true deceiver

[thelibraryiscool]

As usual, it snowed. The roofs had heavy overhangs of snow, the paths tramped into the snow during the day went white again, and the hard-packed banks on either side grew higher and higher. Inside the snow banks were deep, narrow tunnels where the children had dug hideouts for themselves during thaws. And outside stood their snowmen, snowhorses, formless shapes with teeth and eyes of bits of tin and coal. When the next hard freeze came, they poured water over those sculptures so they'd harden to ice.

Tove Jansson, The True Deceiver (trans. Thomas Teal)

[jeweled-blue-eyes]

In HtN Ianthe claims she helped Coronabeth pretend to be a necromancer for over twenty years but she's twenty-two, which must mean she did necromancy since she was one year old contradicting herself in GtN when she reveals she's been doing Coronabeth's work since she was six years old. Did Ianthe lie? Or did the author make a mistake? Or is this hinting that something deeper is going on?

[easyaesthetics]

Persona 5 Royal + What To Say If Someone Is Gaslighting You

[tricksterlatte]

There's something absolutely ironic and even compelling to me about the domino effect regarding Akechi and Sae's interactions. Akechi had to deceive everyone, including his coworkers. Sae in particular was closely tied to the investigations of the crimes he was committing, so of course appearing as non-threatening or even annoying as possible to her was in his best interests.

However, his petty but arguably feeble masquerade is what led to his cognitive self in Sae's brain presumably being easy for the Phantom Thieves to tie up? He was too good at deception and it led to Sae's perception of him being sopping wet cat, which was easy for the Thieves to subdue, so the threatening, real Akechi wouldn't stumble upon Sae's cognition of him as he went to murder Joker.

I know people usually discuss Shido's cognitive Akechi and the implications regarding Akechi's presentation of himself and his layers of deception, but Sae's is the direct contrast to Shido's, and it's very interesting to look at how being a petty little asshole to your stressed out hot lady coworker about her skincare routine can also contribute to her thinking of you a a nuisance at best (until it was almost too late for everyone involved, but hey, it worked out for the best? I think).

I love the layers of Akechi's deception because he was cunning to a fault. Sometimes I wish we could have seen how the Thieves interacted with Sae's cognition of him, because both Sae and Shido had a very biased perception of him, and it makes me wonder who really knew Akechi at all. I'm rambling here, but it's been on my mind for ages. I would love to see if her cognitive Akechi changed after 11/20, considering he went from annoying junior detective to a dangerous murderer in just one day for her, and she doesn't remember any of third semester or even 12/24 when he was there.

[noctude]

finally got gloves but theyre fuzzy and dark blue and make my fingers look short and round so every time i look down at my hands while wearing them i briefly think im gonzo

[teenjiism]

vegas went all out to prove that he is a strong believer of safe, sane and consensual sex, a strong believer of good bdsm etiquette

[yuukei-yikes]

Love kagerou project is never not complicated to explain like one of its biggest characteristics is how convoluted the story is but it's not even Just that. u can't even properly explain the plot bc even THE POWERS are so oddly specific, because they're "EYE" powers that actually come from SNAKES?? and for example when u say stuff like, there's an "invisibility" power. it's oversimplifying the eye power bc it's. not. really invisibility. ugh i love this stupid ass over complicated shit show of a series

[dougielombax]

The following program was based on a true story.

These events actually happened.

*THEY DID NOT!!! EVERY WORD OF IT IS A LIE!!!!!!*

[namari-hime-moved]

kagamine rin cover of doctor=funk beat starts playing

[glsneeg-enthusiast]

i will fool the shepherds. i will know their greatest fear. i will know your greatest fear. wake up joseph. wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up wake up

[yukipri]

I think my ideal seasons breakdown (purely in an enjoying-the-weather/vibes sense) would be:

SPRING🌸: February~May

SUMMER☀️: June

FALL🍂: July~December

WINTER❄️: January

[ekho-ekho-ekho]

girl if you are gonna cry to me, the aromantic one, about "all the lies" your ex told you, please please make sure the lies are good ones, like, I am begging 😭 did he have a secret wife in Montreal? was he hiding a fetish for anthropomorphized airplanes? did you learn he was a Russian sleeper agent all along?

...or did he say a bunch of normal couple shit like "I Love You" or "We'll Figure it Out" or "It Won't be a Problem" prior to breaking up?

just—look, just tell how mad I should actually be at this guy. that's all I ask. just give me a gauge.

[5hrignold]

i could be like entirely wrong but i like that gerbo is only super agreeable to the things bugbo says and suggests him to do because he likes him and they’re best friends. i feel like the way he acts around bugbo could be mistaken as gerbo being a gullible person who has no backbone but based off his interactions with other characters i feel like its safe to say thats wrong! both cases were already tense situations but when seen talking with characters like quentin and thomas gerbo clearly can tell that whatever they’re doing is wrong and further he doesn’t even remotely need bugbo’s voice to tell him that. like he just flat out calls thomas evil after talking to him for like 2 minutes he’s not a 100% pushover lol. my main point apart from gerbo is smarter than most probably think is he’s so easily swayed by bugbo because he trusts him so much and he KNOWS him he knows bugbo only has everyone’s best interest in mind and nothing he tells him would be to harm him

[wonder-worker]

"In reality Richard III invented a Woodville scare as a screen for his own conspiracy"

-A.J Pollard, "Richard III and the Princes in the Tower"

[no-light-left-on]

hot take but taking every hearsay or rumor or book in a fictional universe for fact is bad understanding of the world as the story presents it, actually

[presumenothing]

speaking of novel lines that live rent-free in my mind:

方多病呆呆地看着晴空，摇了摇头：“他没有扯谎。” 他道，“他虽然是个骗子，却从不怎么骗人……真的……不怎么骗人，只是你我没明白……” 他喃喃地道，“没……没太把他当回事……”