#verse: i'm sound !

[cherrywhite]

There's always so much to be said about every single silt verses episode but I just want to say how much I love how well they do callbacks without seeming too hammy or shoehorned in. Like, this episode alone we got

Hayward's very first lines (let me put my faith in something tangible, real /weeping sobbing crying)

Once again from Hayward's intro episode

Brother Wharfing's story about The Children of the Burnished Mirror. Something I particularly have a good giggle about because it's not something I would have expected Carpenter to particularly remember (I love how the place goes completely against Hayward's character. let the man speak!!)

And the one that particularly gets me, some of the last words Faulkner's father told him

[vimbry]

it's sad how many reviews and stuff around tmbg seem to centre linnell as the sole dark and creepy writer of the band, never really crediting flansburgh too. do "hide away folk family," "dirt bike," "rabid child," "black ops," "cloisonné" mean nothing to them, smh.

[voxxisms]

❛ i give good head. gender non - specific. just so we're all on the same page. ❜

[iniziare]

This may be immensely horrible timing as I think most of the dash is still asleep(ish?) but if anything, it can just be a reblog later. Since she's so heavily on the mind at the moment, and to ring in the aesthetic change. Inbox call for Yelan! Multis, specify who for! Cause if I have to surprise you, it could end up extraordinarily lame. ;)

[tar-maitime]

last words

Rating: T Characters: Maedhros | Maitimo, Sons of Feanor Relationships: Maedhros & Sons of Feanor Additional: character death, grieving, kinslayings, War of Wrath WC: .75k

@feanorianweek snuck up on me, so instead of writing something for each of the days, I'm just going to have to go with this...

.......

“Are you so quick to turn your back on our father, then, traitor?”

It’s not the last thing Curufin says to her. There are plenty more words between them, in that fight that eventually ends with an agreement to attack Doriath, and in the preparations that lead up to the assault. But by some chance or other, it happens that ‘traitor’ is the last thing Curufin calls her.

Not ‘sister’. Not any of her names. Just that ugly word that hangs between them, that she keeps hoping they’ll have time to resolve, up until she finds him dead in a pool of blood on the floor.

Maedhros doesn’t know why it sticks in her mind like that.

The last thing Celegorm calls her is ‘general’, as in “As you command, General,” with a too-playful grin and a wink, when they’re discussing who will be deployed where just before the attack. Maedhros only finds out later that he’d disregarded her instructions entirely to chase down Dior Eluchil and fight him personally.

He’s still wearing that same grin when she finds him dead in the throne room, even though his wounds tell her that he didn’t die quickly. She wonders if he teased at death the way he did with her and their brothers.

She hears his voice calling her General, General, General, over and over till it loses all meaning, as she sprints through the frozen woods looking for the lost princes, as she returns empty-handed and deals out justice to Celegorm’s men.

The last time she sees Caranthir alive, he says, “The strap on your pauldron is wearing thin, Nelyë,” with such complete normalcy that she has to rack her brain, later, to realize that those were his last words to her. She can’t seem to take it in. Celegorm and Curufin had practically courted their deaths in Doriath, and she’d sought to save them from it as much as she’d sought to save Doriath from them. But Caranthir...she hadn’t seen it coming. She doesn’t think he did, either.

Her father, her uncle, her cousin, her husband all were afforded some kind of dramatic weight to their deaths, to make the world stop and acknowledge that something had gone horribly wrong. Kneeling in a corridor in Menegroth, Maedhros can only think inanely that it’s unfair somehow for her middle brother not to have been granted the same dubious courtesy.

.......

The last thing Amrod calls her is ‘Maitimë’. If he’d called her anything else, anything else...

But Maedhros hasn’t thought of herself by that name in centuries. She never gets to ask why he landed on that name out of all the many she’s had - a flashback to Alqualondë? a mere slip of the tongue? - because the disused name takes a fraction too long to get her attention, and by the time she turns toward him, one of his opponents has already put a sword through his ribs.

She pays more attention after that (after she’s screamed, after she’s laid waste to the defenders of Sirion who did this). She makes sure she knows exactly where Maglor and Amras are and what their situation is at all times after that. 

It’s not enough to save Amras, who dies in her shaking arms, calling her “Amya.”

Perhaps he wasn’t talking to her at all, saying that - Maedhros’ face is more like her father’s, and the scars and cropped hair have left any resemblance to Nerdanel vestigial at best. But she still hears it echo in her mind along with traitor and General and Nelyë and Maitimë, so as far as she’s concerned, it counts. 

She is glad, when it occurs to her, that the twins (the new ones, Maglor’s peredhil who want to be hers as well) never call her that in their quest to bestow a maternal title on her.

.......

When Maedhros goes out to fight in her last battle of the War of Wrath, Maglor stops her with a hand on her arm, and makes her eat something, and tells her “Stay safe, sister,” before she leaves.

There’s no particular reason to think that those will be his last words to her, any more than any other parting might be their last. But Maedhros still tucks them away in a drawer in her memory, just in case.  “You too, hanno,” she says, and ducks out of their tent to make for the latest battlefield.

[notbecauseofvictories]

oh no, is competent hayward....hot?

[cherrygarden]

thinking about solo songs 1d should sing on their reunion tour. like yes each of their songs are finished products and great as they are! but there's some that would be amazing with a harmony and also thematically, to sing it on stage with all of them?? i'm crying just thinking about it

[backlogbooks]

one thing i love about the silt verses is that like, it's been so long since i've had the "this is the best thing i have ever experienced and i have full trust in the creators to deliver" with a podcast--the last one was alice isnt dead

and i've loved podcasts since then, and not every podcast needs to be, or can be, that--but god there's something about the feeling of putting on my headphones for the next episode of tsv that's just Next Level

season three is gonna destroy me and i'm so ready

[charyou-tree]

NEW NIGHTWISH JUST DROPPED THIS IS NOT A DRILL

[downtherabbitholewithlucy]

If Limp Bizkit gave you the opportunity to have them play for you and only you in the crowd, but the catch was that they could only play one song total, but a song of your choosing, what song would you choose for them to play for you?

[radioves]

its quite shrimple actually

[davealgonquins]

ooh, if only you were mine the places I would take you to to see you happy and to see you smile there is nothing I wouldn't do i would give you the entire world in a second if only you were mine

[voxxisms]

it's a drinking night. he just heard through the grapevine that family in heaven are incapable of remembering their family. at least, presumably, the ones who ended up in hell.

he knew he was alone, but it hurt a lot more when it was an impossible hurdle to cross. his wife, his daughter, eventually his son. his parents. none of them would ever know him again, even if they did talk when he visited, huh?

great.

[hum--hallelujah]

half of From Under The Cork Tree is edgy sketchy and explicitly voyeuristic but the other half is heartbreakingly tongue in cheek confessional. and this duality makes me want to scream

[zukkaoru]

love using my knowledge of the bible to write fics. don't so much love having to look up every verse i want to reference in king james version instead of whichever of the three other versions i memorized verses in because if this character is 27 in ~2012 he definitely didn't grow up reading the berean study bible

[plotbunnybreeder]

All the World's a Stage

aka a silly RomCom fake-ABO-relationship plot bunny because my brain does things

Jaskier wondered if he was secretly cursed at birth to have outrageously bad luck for the string of events that led to his current circumstances: abducted, labeled an Omega, apparently sold at the highest bid for an Omega ever, and sold to the infamous White Wolf Alpha warlord of Kaer Morhen.

Except it turns out the White Wolf isn't an Alpha.

Somehow they have to convince everyone around them (enemies and allies alike) that they're a successfully mated Alpha-Omega pair or the consequences will be greater than just shipping Jaskier back to the family that never wanted him in the first place.

Inspired by the linked post below: