#archesa

There is something about this one that screams Canach to me 😏 (but if you feel like it fits another pairing better, go wild!)

Oh no, I 100% agree, that is a very Canach line :D (And this isn't a very long piece, sorry, but it's what my brain spawned into existence, so enjoy, I hope! :) ) Takes place at the very end of PoF.

Kerra, trained from almost the moment she awakened in combat, who has run through jungles and across pools of lava and glided through lightning storms, really doesn’t trip very often.

The party in Amnoon, where she’s dancing on the stage and just slightly tipsy, appears to be an exception to the rule.

Her feet slip on something and she falls off the edge, but the fall is even shorter than she’d anticipated—caught by someone strong and sure, who says in a familiar voice, “It seems the great Pact Commander has fainted.”

“Fainted?” Kerra splutters. “Is that what I did?”

“Straight into my arms,” Canach says, smirking as Kerra’s splutters turn to laughter. “You know, if you wanted my attention, you didn’t have to go to such extremes.”

Kerra loops her own arms around Canach’s neck, leans up just a little, and puts all the cocky certainty she can into her voice as she grins. “I know.”

Hey! We're the same age ... for a couple hours still! ^^ Hey 33 is a cool number! It's solid! Biblically solid XD

​I can't comment on the biblic thing but kfbzgk

"Another airship crashed? Commander, insurance won't cover another one."

I'm going to be honest: I can't Trahearne :< but hey, I do get points for trying, right? ^^" Thanks for sending it in, I love Traho, even though he's hard for me to draw

How can anyone see this scene, see the way Ben Barnes acts it, see the look in the Darkling's eyes and say he's not completely smitten. This is the face of a man who's fallen hard and can't get up.

Honestly I’m more embarrassed than irritated at all the antis here who really are desperate to recontextualize the show!Darkling’s actions and lines and character as wholly manipulative, and in doing so sweep aside Barnes’ deliberate acting choices and the awkward, ambivalent writing and re-writing involved in adapting the character. It’s...really something.

Case in point: I actually knew going in that the Darkling was evil as I made sure to read at least the first book, so when Barnes popped up I was already on the lookout for the writerly and actorly signposts of manipulation. A total V-tease Barnes may be, I was expecting the shoe to drop at any moment now and I’m sure many fans were too. Imagine my surprise and confusion and incredulous delight when the manipulation stayed firmly at the Dumbledore level of half-truths and lies, maybe a little nudge-nudge with the black kefta and Fabrikator gloves, and the sexual tension and attraction became downright romantic. He passes up key opportunities to draw Alina in. He locked the war room door after Alina left, as if to keep himself in. He kept looking at her and not her light. He rejected Zoya, for god sakes. Zoya, his FWB, who approaches him DTF, and with Alina gone and so he didn’t have to pretend anything. And then the antis contort themselves into intellectual pretzels about Zoya’s supposed victimhood and being taken advantaged by the Darkling. *facepalms* I won’t lie: For a moment there I was actually hopeful they would change the twist or not have it at all.

So yeah, there was obvious decision to tone down the villainy and manipulation. At least Book!Darkling was angry and conflicted at himself with his attraction, which was good foreshadowing. The twist made some sort of sense, even if it was dully conventional. Here the twist was so nearly out of nowhere that I feel sorry for the non-book people. They must gave been WTF-ing out. The writers really should have decided on the Darkling’s brand of villainy, either a Voldemort in it mainly for power or anti-hero. By all accounts, show!Darkling leans towards the latter, but if they decide to do a Bardugo and retcon his previous actions and characterization (already they seem to be leaning towards the “he was responsible for Genya’s rape by the king even though he specifically gave her to the Queen” line) and pile on more random atrocities on his plate willy-nilly even if they contradict with his motivation as written in the show...I’m going to scream.

Well I have this cute soft moment in the post season 5 fic I'm writing where Hordak is cold so Entrapta throws a blanket around him and lends him an oversize sweater of hers and he's just... Feeling ridiculous but he's also warm and comfortable so he's not complaining ☺️

🌹— Pride