I am having many many thoughts about Hands of the Emperor, but here is one before I go to sleep:
this sounds very silly, but i am eighty-odd pages into this book and almost nothing has happened, technically. The main characters are going on a vacation. It is a fairly significant part of this that the Emperor has never done so much nothing at once before. Travel arrangements have been made, social interactions had, various vacation activities enjoyed, but on a literal level there is no large plot moving forward.
AND YET. I am up late reading this already, and I want to stay up later. I want to keep reading. Because even if on the surface, not much is going on, the emotional depths that this book has already gone to are incredibly compelling.
The main character is watching the man he serves as emperor and reveres as a god, a man he cares for deeply, slowly remember that despite being an emperor and a god he is also a person, and find enormous joy in getting to be just that. The main character has been overcome with emotion multiple times by seeing his emperor smiling with great pleasure at things like a casual conversation, or watching the rain, or tuning a harp with his own hands. I am overcome with emotion too.
I don’t know if the pace will pick up at some point, but I genuinely think even if it doesn’t, I could read seven hundred pages of this, just on the strength of what it’s making me feel.
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AU Idea: Griddlehark Bachelorette
Harrowhark Nonagesimus, the Reverend Daughter of the Ninth House, is choosing a spouse on national TV!
Candidates include:
Judith Deuteros! Who doesn't love a girl in uniform? Rumor has it the Reverend Daughter herself considered becoming a military chaplain once upon a time!
Palamedes Sextus! He's intelligent, polite, educated, a talented necromancer -- everything Harrow has said she wants.
Ortus Nigenad! A lifelong family friend and her parents' favored candidate. Will she give him a chance?
Ianthe AND Coronabeth Tridentarius! Not just two beautiful and accomplished young women, but identical twins competing for the hand of the same girl. #DRAMA
Abigail Pent AND Magnus Quinn! A married couple looking for a third. Anonymous sources say Harrowhark may have enough mommy and daddy issues to be swept off her feet by their stability and nurturing affection.
THE SURPRISE CANDIDATE -- Gideon Nav, Harrow's childhood bestie-slash-archnemesis, sweeping in on a cloud of glory from a successful tour in the Cohort to ask How do you like me now?
Who will get a rose, and who will get the boot? TUNE IN TO FIND OUT!
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Riddle Rosehearts x Yuu moments for the delusional
Or in other words, me screenshotting random things Riddle says and horribly twisting them so I can pretend he feels something more than friendship for Yuu (me) 😔
This started out as me collecting a few suspicious screenshots and then I decided to do a post like this for everyone and I ended up going through the entire main story and all the album voicelines (that i own) and some of the events and vignettes🧍♀️ I am locked in constant battle with my storage, we will fight to the death 🤺
Disclaimer: I am well aware that there is no romance between Yuu and any characters and never will be, let me have this 🤧
Prepare yourself for the most delusional opinions ever thanks, I will be treating this as seriously as I can
Firstly, Yuu is shown to be one of a few people who isn't scared of Riddle, and he enjoys that 💃
Notice how matter-of-fact he is about this? Like you WILL dance with him, who else would it be with???
This is just him being like "Hey hey prefect please come to my birthday party please please! We have tarts ooooo don't you like tarts? You should have some tarts! Well you don't HAVE to come if you don't WANT to... 😔" He's pouting it's so cute 🤧
I really have no explanation for this one other than I really liked the moment (romantic or platonic I do not care it was sweet hhhh🤧)
If anyone can't read this I'll edit it because it got SO blurry when I put all the images together 🤺
Anyways throughout his voicelines he's CONSTANTLY inviting Yuu places with him, and honestly how else do you even explain that other than true love? 💃🌹✨ ("Friendship." SHHHHUSH)
This is just cute to me, I get they're just hanging out but also like--- like--- "most pleasant" HE'S HAVING FUN *sob* AS HE SHOULD BE he deserves the world, prefect keep doing what you're doing (prefect is me, I'm doing this 🥸)
Whoops, his eyes, but uh... do... do you see how he... how he wants to hold off his party for the... the prefect... cause... cause he cares about- *gets executed*
*resurrects* WHAT IS THIS IF NOT TRUE DEVOTION??? 🌹🤺
His face stays calm but he's squealing inside, I know it
The prefect is happy so he's happy and they live happily ever after
I'm gonna need to make another one of these because alas, I can't put more than ten images 😔🥀
I also plan on doing this for everyone (platonically for the obvious exceptions 💃) Really this will just be a series of posts for me to scream about things, my apologies to those who must witness this embarrassing spectacle 💔
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Eddie cooks and Steve doesn't is a rule in their house.
Eddie is an amazing cook. He sucks at baking because he always stops following the recipes, but cooking??? Eddie could be a chef with how delicious the food is. Eddie learned how to cook out of necessity, and quickly found he actually enjoyed it. Eddie just gets distracted and lazy, tending to go for the quicker options that are still tasty. Put everything in a crockpot and push a button? Sign him up! Throw everything in a stew and stir it? Hell yeah! if he imagines he's making potions for a group of travelers well who really needs to know.
Steve, on the other hand, can't cook. He burns every thing he has ever made. He never really learned how, as when he had to take home ec in school he spent most of his time talking to Tommy and Carol. His dad had told him cooking was "a woman's job"- Steve wishes he could go back to his younger self and punch him for ever listening to his dad's misogynistic bullshit (hell, he would even punch his dad). Steve stuck to sandwiches and cheap frozen dinners, but most nights he bought fast food. It was easy and he always had money for it. He always made up for it by being active in sports (and he wasn't a total fiend he knew enough about health, some days he ordered a salad and grilled chicken sandwich instead of a burger and fries. He always drank diet soda, claiming it was healthier).
Steve never realized Eddie could cook. Steve had lamented over how he's a terrible cook, to which Eddie replied "oh me too". So, Steve had decided to try and cook Eddie a meal for their date one night. Of course day of, he may have set the oven wrong. And he maybe didn't know to cut the potatoes for mashed potatoes and just stuck them whole in a pot with milk. Eddie had come over early and they were kissing when a beeping noise was heard. The smoke detector going off is what alerted them to something being amiss. Eddie had taken one look at the burnt chicken and the smoke rising from the oven and immediately decided Steve was never cooking again. His eye twitched as he had lifted the lid on the pot, seeing a whole ass potato sitting in milk that was sticking and burning to the bottom of the pot, and slowly lowered the lid. Steve had tried not to cry, unable to look Eddie in the eyes as they opened windows to let the smoke vent out. Eddie had kissed his forehead and went to the fridge to see what was available. Eddie ended up making cheesy scrambled eggs, pancakes, and ham. Steve was still upset, disappointed and mad at himself. He took one bite before freezing and then looking up at Eddie. "Does it not taste good?" Eddie had asked. "It tastes like...betrayal! You know I can't cook and don't even mention you're a fucking wizard in the kitchen?" Steve had mock glared at him. "Oh excuse me, well you shouldn't have betrayal," Eddie went to grab Steve's plate and narrowly missed the fork that Steve had tried to stab at his hand, "You can take this food from my cold dead body!" Eddie had went to say something but Steve hunched over it and said "My precious" before shoving food in his face like a gremlin. Eddie's heart had soared at the fact that Steve had made a reference to something he knew Eddie liked even though he never read the books. Steve's heart soared at the fact that they wouldn't have to live on fast food and thought thankgodsomeonecanactuallycookthisissogoodholyshit.
That was the date that cemented the rule that Eddie is the one who cooks.
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This is so fricking funny. The Persauds should be allowed to write for every show. Please hire them!
And if you're not in a position to do that, please at least watch Headless: A Sleepy Hollow Story, full of intrigue and romance and also silly but clever jokes like this.
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DID YOU KNOW that today marks the two year anniversary of when this comic first met the world!!! It's true!!
Thanks to everyone who's read and kept up so far. It means a lot that anyone cares about this absurd little thing I've now dedicated two years of my life to, and I'm touched that people actually seem to enjoy it as much as they do.
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