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And then Ruby doesn't want it. She doesn't want to be archwizard, she doesn't want to learn more than find familiar, she just wants to do circus tricks and sneak away getting her sister killed and then she's too deep in her own grief to ever grow as a caster. Saccharina Frostwhip I am so glad you exist, I'm so glad we got you. Thank you Emily Axford for stepping up thematically when no one else would.

Your mentor dies, and tells you she has to in order to save the world. To save magic itself. And you spend 20 years wondering what she means. And you see her niece cast magic for the first time and you think this must be it. A new generation is here. And you ask her to study magic with you that you'll help teach her after she's spent years complaining that the only thing she gets taught is boring and she says no. She wants a pet bird and to do trapeze tricks and that's fucking it. And you're like..... Lazuli died for this????? And the sister who is growing up and maturing dies and you're like is this the future Lazuli saw???? But then. Then you meet Saccharina Frostwhip. This is the niece Lazuli saw. This is the future of magic. Someone who actually cares about magic. Someone who actually cares about ruling and the power it provides. And your king rejects his own daughter. He entertains her assassination and you have to choose and you pick magic and you pick Lazuli and you pick Saccharina and ohhhhh sir theobald gumbar you are the character of forever to me. The axmurph of it all!!!!!

“Hot, sexy, dangerous boys, central to virtually all young adult romance novels, cannot be copyrighted.”

if it's any consolation, you'll be hailed as a hero

Tree Swallows by Linda H. Dulak - Audubon Photography Awards

barn swallows depicted in the “spring fresco”, akrotiri, thera, greece. c. 16th century BC

Takeaway here: be as cringe as you want. Don’t limit yourself based on other ppl’s tastes. They’re not you, and you are incredible 💕

stop saying "gen z brought back bush-era purity politics" i grew up in the bush era and even then people weren't saying that you're a sex addict for having boring marital sexual congress in the same house as your children. this is just plain unhinged

A gift for my DnD player - @polyanitsa

PROJECT HAIL MARY (2026) dir. Phil Lord, Chris Miller

King Arthur/Nimue AU

[Personification of the city Najaf, Iraq, for my friend (based on their design)]

“I’ve been a fool all this time. It’s bad enough the government knows my name, but now they want to know my gender? So I’m not letting them know my preferred pronouns. As far as I’m concerned, no one in this building should refer to me at all.”

April, of course, keeps using he/him until Ron calls her into his office to re-explain the strategy of Operation: Muddy The Waters, whereupon she blinks owlishly at him and says, "I mean, isn't that just what they'd expect you to do if you were trying to hide something from the government? If you exclude one pronoun, then they know that's the one you care about. You have to double-bluff them." Ron squints at her for a long moment and says flatly, "Hm. Go back to your desk." The camera stays on Ron watching her through his window as his voiceover says, "April is a valuable employee. I look forward to one day when she leaves this hellhole and uses her strategic genius and insider knowledge to tear down the government."

Well I could swear I heard this phone ringing..

*as in elements higher you can extract energy via fission and lower you can extract energy via fusion but iron itself there is no excess binding energy to extract at all

YOU. YOU SEE MY VISION.

The fae: wow wow wow i LOVE uranium!!!! We should put it ALLLL over our land!!! This won't cause problems!

i am a human warding rock :)