#to hell and back again

[perexcri]

happy one year to her and one of my better opening lines for a fic <3

now, because i'm curious:

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

𝔖𝔞𝔵𝔬𝔫 - 𝔗𝔬 ℌ𝔢𝔩𝔩 𝔄𝔫𝔡 𝔅𝔞𝔠𝔨 𝔄𝔤𝔞𝔦𝔫

[yooo-lets-go]

Ghostsoap in Polish Army PT uniforms

[1alchemistart]

cries mournfully. guess who's been reading fics lately JSDFKLSDKL

[lotus-pear]

he's so crazy we can't take him anywhere 😭🤣

[heartorbit]

happy halloween! 🎃🐈‍⬛👻🐇

[spitedemon]

i really don’t think it’s “typical dragon age fandom nonsense” for people to be genuinely upset about the world state choices. combat, level design, art direction, gameplay gimmicks, those have all varied across each dragon age game. the one thing that’s remained constant are nods to our previous choices.

i wasn’t expecting my HoF to come riding in on a griffon, but i can’t find a monument dedicated to warden tabris somewhere around the anderfels? lucanis couldn’t have some lines about the time that one arainai boy was stirring up trouble in antiva city? you’re gonna tell me that making a mage the new divine wouldn’t have some impact on nevarra and antiva? on the anderfels, the supposed most devout militant andrastian nation in thedas? you’re saying nobody in the north is paying attention to who rules orlais or ferelden? come on.

[cantpickyourgenre]

I believe Bobby is coming back from the dead because I think we deserve to live in a world where Kenneth Choi gets to act his ass off by playing a simultaneously relieved/joyous and angry/furious Chimney, who feels like he has to thank Bobby, but also scream at him until his throat is sore because it wasn't fair to make that decision! he's going to say they should have played rock, paper, scissors and Bobby will chuckle because he thinks he's joking like silly haha Chimney, but Chimney is like "no, we should have discussed it, you died and I didn't even get to say thank you. you died and I owed you a debt I didn't even know about. you let me carry that" and he has to wrestle with the guilt of knowing that Bobby would do that for him, not just theoretically, but actual concrete proof that Bobby would die to save him. which they all know on some surface level that they'd die for one another, but it feels like such a far-off concept until it isn't. but Chimney also has to deal with the gratitude because Chimney is also so incredibly thankful that he didn't die. every step of the way he wanted Ravi, Bobby, Buck, and Athena to commit crimes, because he loves his life and he wants to keep living it. he's so overjoyed that he got to go home to his wife and kid, and that comes with its own guilt because how can he be so happy to be home when Bobby DIED. does that make him a monster? that on some level he's HAPPY that Bobby did that? and now he has to FACE Bobby. so he tries to be the Before Chimney who gets people whimsical gifts, but how do you give someone balloons about choosing your life over theirs? and he spirals because he's different now and Bobby is here and he has so so much he wants to say but all of it feels contradictory and unfair and he would normally go to Bobby for advice. so he does. he goes to Bobby and he says "what would you do, if you were in my position?" and Bobby just says "whatever you need to say or feel, I understand" and that just makes Chimney even more upset because what he needs is for none of this to have ever happened. its like they all got a re-do, but kept the memories and the feelings and now he has nowhere appropriate to put them. anyway, Bobby lives and we get Chimney angst yay <3 forever and ever.

[perexcri]

just finished reading all of to hell and back in one sitting and i just want to ask HOW did you write mike so perfectly. that was one of the best fics i’ve read in my whole life i don’t know what to do with myself now. i’m going to stare at a wall for a few hours in a mike-esque way.

ahhhh thank you so so much for this?? i have a very complicated and weird relationship with that fic now, so it was genuinely so nice to hear about somebody enjoying it!! and also to hear that mike feels very much Like Mike, because that's a fic that i often second guess myself on whether it actually felt right or not lol. i started it off as a silly little project and then very quickly ended up in over my head

idk if you're interested or not, but if you're missing to hell and back again, i have another fic called what a match: i'm half-doomed and you're semi-sweet that has some similar vibes! i even tagged it as apocalypse romcom just because it reminded me of thaba so much heheh

thanks again for your kind words and for taking the time to read something i wrote 🥺 i hope you enjoy anything else you might find plastered up on my ao3 profile, and if not, then that you at least have some good memories of to hell and back again to hold on to :] 💜💜💜

[napstawantstosleep]

Life changing caption ♣

[sforzesco]

2025's ides of march illustration!

I've been doing one a year since the 2022 presidential election*, so. you know! keeping up with the thematic tradition. sometimes politicians compare themselves to caesar crossing the rubicon and you just gotta. process that. do an annual re read of a bunch of different literature that use the ides as their stage. go through commentary on dante's divine comedy. watch a production of julius caesar. for unrelated reasons, ofc.

(*other countries besides america have elections)

it's also funny how people will debate whether or not the optimates/conspirators/whatever were ungrateful assholes in my inbox whenever I post one of these, like the ides of march hasn't been a well established narrative that people have been using to explore other stuff for centuries. take it to an academic conference! we have empire and autocracy and absolutely batshit press conferences to discuss!!

and as always, some reading material! for fun and whimsy. for more on brutus as an established allegorical figure:

The Brutus Revival: Parricide and Tyrannicide During The Renaissance, Mafredi Piccolomini

and on roman conspiracies narratives

Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History, V.E. Pagan

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

I know those eyes.

[First] Prev <–-> Next

[jiguurten]

First words I heard, clear as a bell: "Dean Winchester is saved."

Because I kept having thoughts about their first meeting.

[ministarfruit]

yuri month day 28: please be mine ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[thenightblogcometh]

freddy vs mr. orange outfits