Thinking about how Thjazi not breaking the glyph was a snap decision. He didn't plan his own execution in advance as part of a masterstroke play, based on how he was joking with Hal he clearly expected to escape using the glyph. And then he saw that falcon, presumably Mara the Wing. Others have mentioned that he likely chose to die because what he was doing with the blood from the River Gavzidra required someone be in the Tenebral Reaches, and him seeing Mara signaled to him that her passage had been blocked, and he realized he had an express if one way ticket to exactly where his plans needed someone to be. So Thjazi chose to allow his own execution to proceed, and rushed out his last words to Hal in the scant few seconds he had. Circumstances very suddenly required him to willingly sacrifice himself for his cause, and he made that choice very decisively even as he was clearly scared to die. Thjazi was certainly a lot of things, but one of those things was that he was a man who was willing to give up everything if it meant living out his ideals.

thaisha could’ve reforged the pariah blades into something else, whether for war, gods, or vengeance. yet it was her daughter, thjazi’s niece and a rungjani who chose to follow in her father’s footsteps, who unknowingly made the true anchor. prop swords painted with the blood of her people and with the intention to show the truth: her people’s history is something that cannot be buried or erased, nor can it go unseen or unheard.

firm believer you can't be a ''good person''. too much niuance to life.

you can be good (adjective) but you cannot be good (identity)

if you think you are good (identity) you are more likely to cause harm as you don't consider yourself to be capable of it

do any of you want to hear abt my Black Ryland Grace headcanon

guy who needs to send an email so he completely isolates himself from the world misses out on every opportunity curls up in a ball and dies. and like 2 months later sends said email finally

Text: congrats on the failure babe, most people don't even try

a cat is a sort of machine that dispenses hair all over you and everything else in the room