Song of the Sibyl

I’ve been seeing various ACOTAR tarot posts lately and they reminded me of this post from my second Tamlin Week. I think someone made a Tamlin Temperance card, but not quite the one I was thinking of. This man isn’t fighting his position, and, as in Tamlin’s un-glamoured form, has a crown of light. I like it as an amalgamation of Tamlin’s past and future; he is vulnerable, and open, as he made himself for Feyre in book one; yet he has his mask off, indicating it is past that; it is now a vulnerability and openness that is key to his recovery. While the card after this is the Death card, what follows is Temperance: alchemy, and self-transformation.

i agree so much about making your blorbos pathetic but i do fear that many take this to mean 'make them more traditionally feminine/submissive' which genuinely hurts my soul. make your blorbos pathetic in interesting character-oriented ways. understand their neuroses and turn the dials up to eleven. juxtapose the parts of life they handle extremely well with the parts of their lives that make them eat shit. make them angry. make them cold. make them pave their own way to hell while building walls preventing them from seeing any other way. please i'm begging you no more pathetic as an euphemism for bottoming im gonna mclose it.

we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write gen fics. we have to thank our brave soldiers in fandom who write character studies and stories with no focus on romance or sex. we have to get on our knees and thank the brave soldiers in fandom who write about minor characters and friendship and family with no focus on romance or sex. i know it’s hard to care about characters in a world that seems to only revolve around ships but i see you. and i love you