“laughter was light, and light was laughter”

we could have a disgusting thing going on if you want

you don't want it

robin hobb is so good at writing a situation that gets worse and worse and worse and

robin hobb talking about how the fool was only supposed to show up for one scene, say a single line and disappear, but when she started to write he refused to leave….he wanted to stay…….‘when he suddenly declares, ‘we’re here to save the world, you and i’ i’m going i have no idea what you’re talking about’…….‘he’s one of those characters that has no respect for an outline, no respect for the plot’…….if i think at all about beloved fighting tooth and nail scratching and biting to stay, to stay by fitz, to not be left behind, in and out of the story i break my own heart in a million little pieces. my curiosity has always been greater than my wisdom. but largest of all is my own loneliness………

the fool is literally the funniest concept as a character. you have a prophet who has to guide our main character, but he's a jester so sometimes he's just messing with him. so our main character has to figure out when he's just being messed with or if he is hearing lifesaving advice. and the fool is also in love with him.

i love sibling estrangement as horror. Only one person in the entire world has been through what youve been through and they deny it . Awesome

sometimes your distress does indicate you should stop and respect your limitations. at other times it's more of a baby aquatic mammal being introduced to water for the first time thing. Too bad the difference is so hard to tell.

Hawks is the jealous type that barely keeps himself from snapping a persons neck for looking at what belongs to him and Dabi just so happens to be his. Dabi is LOVING the attention

no matter the struggles there is always ao3 in bed

"i asked chatgpt" okay well i asked the weird gay court jester and he gave me a foreboding omen in the form of a riddle. we are not the same

The actual fucking PROBLEM like the SICKEST PART of every single way Beloved acts and thinks and talks about Fitz from Ship of Magic through the quarrel is that they're doing that because they KNOW Fitz loves them. Because they LOOKED INTO HIS SOUL and SAW and FELT that he loved them the way they loved him. They spent all of AQ flirting with him (bc he was their FIRST CRUSH and CHILDHOOD LOVE btw) and assumed that Fitz was humoring them or pitied them when he claimed to care for them and then SAW WITH THEIR FUCKING EYES that their ROMANTIC AND SEXUAL LOVE for him was RETURNED. And then they KISSED HIM GOODBYE. So when Amber is blushing about her one true love giving her the earring and carving Fitz's face into Paragon and when the Fool is clinging to Fitz "like a woman" and playing domestic in his house for way longer than he intended to and Lord Golden is proudly pinning the flowers he thinks Fitz is making a point of giving him to his FUCKING chest EVERY day and when up to the very first sentences of Fitz picking a fight with him he's asserting that they both know what they are and they both know what they feel for each other and is literally operating on the assumption that those are the exact same thing it is because THEY HAVE SEEN THEIR LOVE FOR FITZ MIRRORED BACK AT THEM IN EQUAL MEASURE THROUGH HIS FUCKING HEART AND SOUL. And they KNOW that it is there. And EVERYTHING THEY HAVE THOUGHT ABOUT HIM for OVER FIFTEEN of SA'S OWN YEARS has been colored by the knowledge that Fitz reciprocates their feelings. AND THEN FITZ INSISTS HE DOESN'T AND THAT THEY'RE IN THE WRONG FOR THINKING HE DOES. OKAY. OKAY

immortality as theft (you have to steal life from something else) immortality as parasitism (there is something else inside You that is keeping you alive and you become less of yourself more and more the longer it stays in you) immortality as violence (everything is trying to kill you because everything is supposed to die and the universe will always try to find a way to right the wrong that is You) you understand

everyone has a ship thats just: theyre perfect. they hate each other. theyre married. they havent spoken in 15 years. they have date nights three times a week. theyre divorced. theyre pining, its unrequited. its requited. theyre starcrossed. theyre meant to be. theyre doomed by the narrative. they love each other. theyve never held hands. they wont stop making out at parties. they cant look each other in the eye