I’ve Been Here For So Long

oisín hakinvar my mind is spinning with thoughts of you. you’ve gotten buff over the summer maybe for your own sake, but if the talented and beautiful diviner you’ve had a crush on since that first history of glyphs class one thursday morning in freshman year notices your tats and says hey, then what a win! right? who cares if you feel like she’s hiding something? or she runs away from you. or your party rogue gets bossier and angrier and you feel like she’s hiding something for you too. you keep a low profile, get bored in the auditorium while your crush’s friends do all these crazy bits—they’ve been killing it helping their party cleric campaign for student president, by the way—and you’ve had the lot you have for long enough to know that especially when she doesn’t get what she wants, kipperlilly gets mad. now she’s mad enough to cuss her opponent out in front of both your parties and. well. you aren’t by any means inexperienced, but you haven’t saved the world thrice. so you try to deescalate before this becomes a real shitshow and you just. watch as these intrepid heroes all square up in their cleric’s defense. and maybe something nags at the back of your mind, of a fight, of giants and sweetness and a cable knit sweater stained with blood, or maybe it can’t because you can’t remember the truth, or maybe or maybe or then their rogue starts hissing at you? you’ve met him maybe once? anyway. with all that over, oisín! your crush, the literal elven oracle, says she thinks you’re cool! you catch her eye, or try to, while her friends aim her head your way, and despite that, or maybe even because of it, you ache a little for a friendship as comfortable and familiar as theirs. but you have the lot you have. so you send an apology through a pointed finger and walk away.

We’re haemorrhaging money on the groundskeeper, Jawbone!

Some of my favourite little bits. This is like the first time i fully color them ^.^ it was fun. Took wayy longer than it shouldve LOLL

God, I love the art this season so much. Not just because it's fucking gorgeous, (which it is.) But. like. look at this.

The Trio of Goblin Badasses (otherwise known as the Gukgak family):

First of all. Pretty. Second of all, look at their facial features. Riz's got his dad's ears, but his mom's nose. Sklonda's jawline and Pok's dark brows. This kid is the spitting image of his parents, a perfect combo of the two. Just like Kalina said in Sophomore Year.

I Just Think It's Neat.

Tonight adds another inductee to the "RIP to Brennan's best laid plans" Hall of Fame.

Members now include:

Aabria "I do have alert" Iyengar

Emily "Something called a charge fragmentation" Axford

And now introducing Zac "Mindless Rage" Oyama

At least Brennan's surprised face has gotten better.......

I love Kristen Applebees.

Whenever I see an Ivan Aivazovski painting the sea monster in me goes absolutely feral

I see this and I've never wanted to sink a ship so much in my life I'm biting through wood as we speak

God if I saw this in person I'd straight up start slithering. Start writhing

The way he just *clenches fist* makes water light up from the inside. Ugh, I once zoned out in front of one of his larger paintings in a gallery and came to, like, twenty minutes later, smelling saltwater and tasting driftwood.

This is his largest painting ever. It is 2,8×4,2 meters large. That is about 9'3"×14'1". It took him ten days to paint. This is a guy who painted normal-sized paintings in an hour, two, tops, according to contemporaries.

He was utterly unique.

lou, mocking: we all remember adaine's classic scooter from sophomore year!

me: .... she pulled it out of the jacket when she asked for something to get them to you faster when you were fighting captain james in the street..... and fig and gorgug cut the rope to fly across leviathan...... adaine's scooter.....

junior year glow-up??????????

complaining about high elves and sharing inside job gossip. the sisters ever actually

cereal tastes better at night because the veil is thin

There was a throwaway line in a recent fhjy episode where brennan defined friendship as something like "mutual responsibility to another person" and i've been thinking about that all week. it's so simple but it feels like a lot of people's definitions would be about enjoying spending time with someone or liking the same things, rather than it being about feeling enough of a connection with someone that you choose to look out for each other. it's such a small line to latch onto but i genuinely wanna know where he got it from

The little soldier boy came home ~

this scene has been stuck in my head for over a decade probably :)

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asl ii will also be available for free!