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Oh, yeah? Well, what if I disguised myself as a wretched old beggar-woman and came to beg for food at your royal feast and then invoked the laws of hospitality to beg a small favor from the king and when you said "If it is in my power to grant your request, it shall be granted" I unmasked myself and said "Ah-ha! I ask for your throne and your daughter's hand in marriage!"? What would you do then? You wouldn't do shit. You're devastated right now.
You wish you could execute me so bad but your whole court just watched you get played for a sucker and not even a king can violate the laws of hospitality. You're shaking and crying rn.
I'd give you my chair, then apologize that my daughter's hand is hers, not mine, and therefore not within my power to give.
Crown's still mine.
By Brigantia this can't be happening
These two do this every year
It's so funny how Luz apparently didn't know Hunter and Willow had a thing for each other, considering that Hunter suffers from Chronic Oversharing Disorder and if she just asked him at some point during their stay with Camila, he would have blurted out the entire timeline of how the romantic feelings developed from the moment he met to her to five minutes ago.
He would consider this crush he has extremely pathetic and humiliating and would swear to take it to his grave. However, two pokes in the side from Luz and a "You can tell me~" and he's spilling his guts all over the floor.
Willow is another story. She's a tougher nut to crack than Hunter is. I think, at this point, she's holding any indication of vulnerability so tight against her chest that this information would have to be waterboarded out of her.
That doesn't mean that obvious hints are not constantly falling out of her pockets, even if she's trying to be subtle about it. It can be assumed that the reason that her crush is not picked up on is that nobody (sans Gus) pays that much attention to Willow's feelings anyway.
terfs celebrating that the international chess federation has banned trans women from competing in women's FIDE competitions, because it's sooooooo feminist to argue that women are so biologically inferior and nowhere near as smart as men and thus can't play chess on the same level. girl that's not feminism that's literally just misogyny
they'll lick any boot that stomps on trans women
You know. Reading is important. Because I'm like always trying to make every line I write this groundbreaking mindfucking art but like. A book is 90% just saying what happened. "I hugged him around the waist." "The chair was brown and overstuffed." "I woke up alone." Etc etc. Like normal ass lines. I just keep comparing my boring, necessary to set a scene lines, with famous authors' absolute best lines and like.... every line doesn't have to shatter the earth. Sometimes someone just sits in a chair and the lines that wreck you come later, one at a time, here and there. It's alright.
This is super common and I wish we were taught when we begin to write that those quoted lines are also in a sea of the same sort of setup we obsess over not being 'good enough'. I saw multiple people drop out of writing courses over this in college. Sure, sometimes you need a better way to describe something prevalent or to pinpoint an emotion, but if EVERYTHING was written in that sort of tone for a whole book it would prove utterly exhausting to read.
Also, if every single line in the book was hard-hitting and mindblowing, then it wouldn't be memorable because it would be drowned out.
The best lines are famous because they stand out.
I think ive said it before but you really gotta feel bad for oedipus that wanting to fuck your mother got named after him. He really did not want to do that . It is central to oedipus rex how badly he didnt want to do that. Dick move by freud
Love this scene in which Light calls himself a wealthy and pure child and then L makes him yell in a hospital room
Okay, fuck it. I’m doing my analysis because I think this fandom is amazing and they deserve it. BUT MOSTLY BECAUSE I NEED TO CALM MYSELF DOWN AFTER THE SHIT DAY THIS EPISODE MADE ME HAVE. I’m serious. I talked to my coworkers about it and they bought me cookies to calm me down. I left work early. My heart was doing awful things while I was trying to work- it was pathetic. I’m pathetic.
SO. Let’s get one thing out of the way: KATSUKI YUURI FUCKED UP.
So YOI is just full of ingenious, subtle and entirely graceful dialogue. No scene is wasted and every conversation, however brief can explain so much with just a few lines. I’d like to take a moment to talk about one of the last scenes in episode 10 when Yurio and Victor are on the beach. In all honesty, I thought about this scene a lot and it took me a little while to really, truly understand what was going on here.
my mom loves to lie and like she always swears she was NEVER homophobic or anything to me as a child “i even have a gay work friend” but a really funny memory resurfaced recently where i asked if i could use birthday money i had to buy a rainbow flag when i was like ??? 7?? because i LOVED rainbows. and she said no that means something Evil and god will hate you . so what did i do. but ask my grandmom for a rainbow sweater for christmas and proceed to only wear that sweater for three years when it got cold because i didnt like the idea that god hated colors and i wanted to challenge him
normal 7 year old with religious trauma: oh no god can hear my thoughts and punish me
me: either you are wrong about god or god is wrong and i will fight him and i will be the one to find out
me at 7: he would not fucking say that
Heaven Official's Blessing is amazing because Xie Lian meets some random teenager in the middle of nowhere and says "he's adorable and knowledge, I'm taking him home" without knowing if said kid is a murderer or something, and even when he figures out cute teen is a literal King Of The Ghosts he doesn't care because well he's nice to Xie Lian so he can't be that bad!!!
reposting my old tgcf comics episode 3:
some things never really change (read left to right)
this is because of that one tiktok trend from before where you stop walking and see how long it takes for your friends/partner to turn back. i still giggle about this comic every time i see it
i Think i am also starting to learn how tumblr works too maybe,,,
Once I actually finish reading tgcf (mid the 4th book) I'll have to come in with an indepth analysis of the Xianle trio but for now let me say Mu Qing and Feng Xing have the weirdest mixture of devotion, servant mind-sets, and lack of respect for Xie Lian. Like they never argue about anything but who was better to him?? For 800 years???? And when they finally get him back.... they stick him in the middle of a food fight (over him! again!) and convince him to cross-dress as a bride then insult his make-up. What goes on in their heads
In summary:
Y'all can keep at it with that “Romeo and Juliet fell in love in five days how immature” shiz but Macbeth went from no murder to yes murder in like one afternoon and I feel like one of those is a significantly bigger problem than the other
In his defense his wife triple dog dared him and called him a pussy
So I got called into jury duty…
And I was put in the seat instantly, of course. I said, “your honor, I can’t be a juror on a two week trial, I have opera rehearsal.” And she said, “opera huh, well, sing something for us.”
And I did. In a federal court of law, in front of the judge, 75 jurors, the lawyers and the fucking DEFENDANT, I sang o mio babbino caro.
And the judge excused me.
illegitimate-businessman
slytherpuff666
YO I DIDNT EMBARRASS MYSELF IN FEDERAL COURT SO YALL CAN DOUBT ME.
I know a lot of opera singers, and singing a full-on aria in a court room with only a hint of provocation is EXACTLY what they would do.
I know a lot of judges, and demanding an impromptu opera solo on a whim is also something they would do.
(And also one of the main reasons you can be excused from jury duty is economic hardship–basically, it would cause you unreasonable financial damage. If you’re a professional singer, a two week gap in your rehearsal schedule could do that for sure.)
As a muso, I absolutely believe this. I’ve got my accordion out of my carry-on and played a tune when airport security couldn’t recognise its weird mass of levers. Singers and musicians are just Like That.
Accurate.
theactualcluegirl
My friend got stopped at the Canadian border coming back into the US. Border patrol took one look at his tattoed, ear-gagued, mutton chop wearing, hipster self, and said “I don’t believe you’re an opera singer. Sing something for me.” His wife immediately put down her knitting and plugged her ears, because Matt’s a contrabasso, and he does NOT sing quietly. Every other booth along the border stop had a head poking out of it within twenty seconds. And they let them pass without further contest.
The unwillingness of some people to believe that literally anything remotely interesting happens in other people’s lives is truly astounding.
maximum-marrs
Can we all please just take a moment to appreciate that OP’s url is literally @melodramaticsoprano and yet she still was doubted?
