A Stream Of Conscience and Cazriel

I asked my artist friend and she found the edits. She's out here redoing the Cas one bc she thinks she can shade it better now bc it's been a while since she did it.

Like, if Vania had been his love interest it would've been fine I guess, but that opportunity is gone and now it's just part of Cole's character.

“okay mr shadow daddy, with the socially awkward silent brooding rizz, I see you.”

“what????”

and

“beefcake.”

“where?”

“you cass. you’re the beefcake. I want to take a BITE.”

“…I have a mate.”

“bet she bites too. I’d bite her back. snap snap.”

or

“it’s giving… desperate.”

“it’s the story of how me and feyre got together?!”

“it’s still giving desperate, but proceed.”

and the way az would be so exasperated all the time, and when he gives up he just grabs her by her jaw and tugs her into a kiss. “you’re so weird. I love it.” mumbled onto her lips as she giggles.

but it would totally catch on too. to the younger ones. the archeron sisters. I can see elain really saying “the mother has forsaken us all, and now we must suffer.” so deadly silent that all the old faes faces pale while her, nesta and and feyre all nod solemnly bc they get it™️, just for elain to turn and say “y’all didn’t hear that the farmers market stopped making those lavendar lemon muffins? we really are alone as a species now.”

and feyre obsessively saying “slay”.

“that’s so slay, rhys.”

“shadow slay.”

“cass slayed today.”

“it’s such a slay for me that rhys is hung like a fucking horse. I really won this life, huh?” (rhys going red in the face but also smirking but also ??? he’s so lost)

“go out and slay the day everyone, love you.”

and nesta just having the fatalistic humour.

“if I don’t make this shot I’m gonna kill myself… well, guess it’s a sign, balcony or stairs?”

and cassian (and everyone) is like WHAT

Like "oh, you pour milk before tea? Barbaric."

"Starting a conversation talking about the weather? Revolutionary."

"Are you buttering bread or painting a picture?"

"Was that a bow or are you having a stroke? Should I call a healer?"

And Lucien brings all the sisters flowers. Elain and Feyre get unobjectional friendship flowers and Nesta gets ones that mean bereavement.

And they also spar bc everyone else in the NC hates them and they do the same thing.

"You call that a block? I've gotten marriage proposals that were less inviting."

"Thay blade is as dull as your conversation."

Etc etc etc.

And the goal is to get the other to laugh but neither EVER breaks. Bc they're professionals ofc.

because of this most dark mages tend to work in very brightly-lit areas (either artificial light or outside in the daytime) to fuel their spells and wear and use lightly coloured clothes and tools so that they’re easier to see in the dimness their spells create, whereas light mages wear heavy, sometimes leaden robes (depending on the work being done) and the magical equivalent of welding masks to protect themselves from what can be an extreme amount of light, and sometimes other kinds of electromagnet radiation!

You work with what you’ve got, not what you wish you had.

I detest Biden more with every passing day (and he was not in my top 10 candidates in 2020). 2024 will be an election between:

Biden/The Former Guy

Biden/DeSantis

Biden/Republican Fascist to be Named Later

No Labels is an op. It’s being funded by unknown parties to defeat Biden and the Democrats. Their election scenarios are fantasy football for political junkies.

No Third Party has a road anywhere outside statewide offices (Bernie is the exception that proves the rule, and he’s a Democrat for all intents and purposes).

Arguably the rosiest scenario is that TFG breaks with the Republicans to form his own party and tanks any chance the Republicans have, but that’s not looking as likely as it did two years ago.

If you’re pissed, get involved in your local elections. Ensure that no position is running unopposed (and that includes if you’ve got a conserva-Dem somewhere now–primary them).

Get the House back in the Democratic hands (unless you’re up for two more years of this only with MTG as Speaker this time). Increase the margin in the Senate (and send Selema to her post-senate career). Make sure your school board isn’t full of flat-earthers. Wake sure your county counsel isn’t going to shut down your libraries if they have a book someone doesn’t like.

You want what we’ve got?  Vote for it.

But that isn’t going to change until we get some sweeping voting reform that revises our voting system into some kind of ranked or run-off voting

Meanwhile one of our destined-to-be-disliked parties is actually trying to do things we want (health care, living wages, social services, public transportation, civil rights, education, support for gay and trans people, religious tolerance, etc) and one of our parties is banning books and undoing women’s rights and supporting corrupt racist police and endangering gay and trans lives while paying people to make posts about how both parties are equally bad so that people don’t vote democrat.

Like, we are going to not like a lot of how the Democrats operate, that is a feature of the current design, but they are trying to protect women’s rights, they are trying to help the homeless, they are trying to raise minimum wage they have agendas that include important things. And republicans? are at this point a literal cult that want to create a religious fascist state.

Even my father, now 80 years old, a man whose politics i have often despised, a man who voted for Reagan for fucks sake! even he (unhappily) votes Democrat now, because he’s not an insane person, and the republican party has become SO BLATANTLY EVIL AND STUPID that he can’t ignore it.

Democrats pass legislation we want that republicans then find ways to block. Democrats have passed bills that:

close gender pay gaps raise federal minimum wage make becoming a US citizen easier for immigrants protect civil/public water sources from pollution cut greenhouse gas emissions to fight climate change increase gun regulation lower and control prescription drug prices improve healthcare access for those with pre-existing conditions protect net neutrality protect gay marriage rights

these are all the subjects of specific real bills that democrats have either passed into law or tried hard to pass in the last few years. Meanwhile republicans act to block these bills while championing book bans and attacking trans folk and giving more power to corporations to ruin our planet and taking away women’s rights. 

when you see posts attacking Democrats from the left or whatever, the talking points and quotes can often be traced back to right wing sources

So all posts trying to keep non-republicans arguing amongst ourselves and calling for us to not vote democrat (or not vote at all) ? I will be assuming they are bad-faith posts and i won’t be spreading them or engaging with them or anything.

Neither of my children is cisgender.

The last gubernatorial election was, literally, do we elect this guy who is overly fond of cops but is generally a normal human being, or do we elect this other guy who believes frightening conspiracy theories and wants my children removed from my care and forcibly detransitioned and honestly would prefer them to be dead?

That’s it. That’s the kind of choice we get in first-past-the-post voting. If that second guy won, we needed to move. There was no safe way to stay here. The votes of my fellow citizens were all that was standing between my kids and serious fucking danger.

And my fellow citizens DID turn out. Lots of them came out and voted to reject the scary death cultist. I am grateful to all those who went, ugh, I don’t really like this guy, but the other guy is worse, and hauled themselves down to the polling place to get it done.