with a roar of noise and a glory of daylight

my lord. the two statues you commissioned are finally complete. yeah, the double-order with the vast and trunkless legs of stone and the shattered visage. i like to think we captured the sneer of cold command pretty well. it's a really thought-provoking piece my lord. very deconstructionist. i'm sure that even a traveller a thousand years from now could take one look at it and instantly recognise it must have come from an artistically enlightened culture

Victor Frankenstein syndrome aka you spent nights over nights crying and bleeding over this work and now that it's finally done you're just like "nvm. it's trash" and go to bed

Mr. Darcy telling his best friend not to propose to a girl because she’s too reserved with her affections when Elizabeth literally thought he despised her up until the moment his own proposal is the funniest thing to happen in Pride and Prejudice. 

forever fascinated by how little irulan speaks in person and how little we know about her as a person by it being expressed directly. yet we find out so much and such deep intimate details about her solely through her works. it feels like we know her, yet there is so much missing. and yet we cannot hear her

Imagine dooming the entire universe to a thousand different fates so horrible the only way forward is to choose the less horrifying one, which still makes monsters out of your own children and grandchildren just because your husband wants a son and you love him so you throw away your cult’s 10.000 years of meticulous planning for humanity thinking, “Hey, what’s the worst that can happen really, am I right?” *wink*