#muarada

vast bran could charismatically throw me into infinite skydiving and i.... wouldnt be mad

Somewhere, a bunch of fifth graders are busy watching the stars fall. Raus can’t take his eyes off Brenli.

i know this is just two sentences and out of context they don’t really do much but i fucking PEAKED with this. it was one of the first little bits i came up with for the whole fic and i just…..every time i think about it i go feral. i really did it to myself with this one. i can’t explain it!!! it just really does it for me!!!!

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Raus slams him face-first into the sill, shoving him up against the nearest wall before he has a chance to recover. He gets the impression of brown eyes in a sharp face, a newly broken nose dripping blood, and the tapered ears of an elven half-breed– and then several gloved fingers are probing deep into the bullet wound in his shoulder, and Raus reels back with a snarl as the sniper slips out of his grasp and makes for the window again.

i never thought that writing raus and brenli fighting would be so fun but honestly raus’ strength versus brenli’s speed and slipperiness makes for a great combo lmfao. i wanna get back to this sci-fi au at some point, because there’s so much potential for Tropes!

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She’s smiling, Sabine is sure. She can’t see it, but she knows — a crooked thing, not quite smug but definitely pleased, lips pressed together to hide her mirth.

Sabine decides to allow it. She couldn’t really be bothered to wipe the smile off Bran’s face right now anyway.

“sabine decides to allow it” is one of my favourite sabine-isms that sprang into being somewhere along the line. something about pretending she’s in control of the situation, or playing at weary reluctance when she’s actually enjoying something.

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Shen feels the vague unease that had been coiling in his gut solidify into something like alarm. Ahaz only asked for help when he was stuck on a crossword or bleeding to death, and nothing in between.

i’m still really proud of this little bit lmfao. i feel like it really captures the extremes of ahaz’s personality. it’s either 0 or 100 babey. (it also captures some of his ridiculousness, which i think is important to remember even though he’s a very scary sexy firebender assassin)

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“You’re not a fuck up,” Sorrel protests immediately. He’s got that expression on his face, the one where he’s frowning but it’s more sad than angry, eyes wide and upset behind his glasses like someone’s just kicked his dog. Imbris hates that expression. Mostly because he’s the one who usually puts it there.

i generally struggle with descriptions of like…..expressions and emotions and stuff like that (i find myself falling into the same handful of descriptors and it’s very boring and frustrating) so i’m pretty happy with this little paragraph. i’m also very emo about this little paragraph (i’m emo about imbris & sorrel always)

ty!! // pros & cons of dating my OCs

ENIKÖ

Reasons Not To Date Enikö:

• He is a self-absorbed asshole bastard man who is, at the end of the day, almost chronically incapable of putting others needs before his own, terrified of intimacy, and incredibly slow to trust others.• Emotional Unavailability is his middle name. Will not talk about his feelings, does not want to hear about yours. Grow up and ignore your emotions like the rest of us.• Has yet to work through his childhood/adulthood/life trauma and has absolutely no desire to start or make an effort. Sixteen coping mechanisms in a trenchcoat and holding white-knuckle to each and every one of them.• Semi-related to that, not big on casual/non-sexual contact. (And sometimes not big on the sex stuff too but that will not stop him from participating but that is a can of worms we don’t have a big enough can opener for.) There are exceptions, of course, and in the right situation he’d go out of his way to seek it––he’s definitely majorly touch starved––but he’s the very definition of It’s Complicated.• Flighty; will dip at the slightest provocation. Again, intimacy Bad™.• Has a deep and unhealthy need to feel powerful/safe in any situation or relationship, meaning he will either keep you at arm’s length or get manipulative/cruel/hard-edged when feeling vulnerable. NOT conducive to a healthy, long-lasting relationship.

Reasons Dating Enikö Could Be… Not The Worst:

• Deeply, obsessively loyal to those to whom he feels he owes loyalty. If you are one of His People he will fight and steal and hurt and kill and cheat for you. (He wouldn’t die for you, of course, but he wouldn’t die for anyone, so don’t take it too personally.)• Very talented in the bedroom. And out of it. Not technically a hedonist but very cogent of earthly pleasures and sharing them. Also, the single kind of communication he excels at, perhaps. • Intimacy issues aside, definitely knows how to show someone a good time. Good at planning dates; will take you to incredibly nice restaurants/shows/museums/etc. because he’s a vain bastard who likes to show off but it’ll be really fun. Particularly good at tweaking/pushing/skirting the rules and creating sort of faux intimate moments out of that; the trill of getting away with something together.• Witty, fun, pretty good conversationalist. Deeply unwilling to share personal details, but that doesn’t mean he can’t be fun. Charming bastard man.• Stick some therapy in this boy, worm your way through his seventeen layers of armor and masks, tread carefully around the deep-seated trauma and you have a loyal, fun, generally caring, sexy af boyfriend on your hands!

you can do a HANDSTAND??????

ohhh thank u liv this is so nice :’)

that sounds fascinating tell me more about light and the minoans/myceneans

OH NO LIV NOW YOU’VE ENABLED ME. here are a few of the things i remember ghjfsjgs

the Cretan tholoi tombs were consistently constructed with their doorways facing east, where the rising sun would shine across the entrance every morning

this daily cycle of illuminating the tombs was basically kind of like ‘re-energising’ the dead every morning, allowing the ancestors to retain their power & influence

the palace of Knossos (and other Minoan palaces) has these little vertical windows above the doorways to let air and light in and i’m pretty sure i remembered reading that they were likely covered and uncovered for different occasions/rituals to control the passage of light

one researcher (I can’t remember her name rip) discovered that at certain times of the year (specifically the summer and winter solstices) the windows at Knossos would allow light to stream in directly across the throne room and lustral basin (another room that was likely used for ritual purposes)