Cinder | They/Them | Demisexual and demiromantic | Personal blog so don’t expect any form of consistency
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ahhh !! im too sleepy. hit "LIKE" to tuck me in. hit "REBLOG" to unleash night terrors upon me !
Now this… this is beautiful
“The hyperloop will be the most efficient train in the worl—”
*judgemental stare*
autism be damned my boy can work a cauldron
im sure hytale is going to be great but did they have to keep minecrafts art style? the only thing that looks good in minecrafts art style is… minecraft.
I’ll never understand sailing, like you just get into a boat that doesn’t actually serve a purpose other than to not sink with people who you probably don’t know and don’t like in windy and therefore cold weather, and if that weather gets too windy or too calm then you’re fucked. And all this time a massive fuck-you pole is swinging about above your head which if you don’t duck will knock you out of the boat and give you a concussion
“Larry is bad at catching mice so he’s bad at his job”
You FOOLS
His official duties according to www.gov.uk, the official website of the UK government, are “greeting guests to the house, inspecting security defences and testing antique furniture for napping quality” and “contemplating a solution to the mouse occupancy of the house” which he says “is still ‘in tactical planning stage’.”
He’s doing his job JUST FINE
what a way to end pride month
Romance is best enjoyed in thin wood form bc I’m too lazy to get out of my bed
COMPUTER HUNGRY FEED IT DUST AND HAIR
psh, this party sucks *teleports to the cactus dimension* oh i don't like it here
45 for what power I don’t want my horse cold in the middle
horses go in the microwave 45 seconds
me and you are beast fiends for ever ^_^ *lunges for your throat*
I grew up in a judgemental household, and have far too many memories of my mother saying "I just don't understand how/why someone would [insert common human behavior she didn't vibe with]." I heard it so often that my instinctive response to that attitude became--that sounds like a failure of imagination on your part. I may not share a person's preferences/habits/behaviors etc, but that doesn't mean I can't accept that such people exist, or exercise my emotional intelligence a bit to guess why humans might make some of the choices they do.
There is, however, one thing that consistently puzzles me about humanity, and that is how so many people seem to actively dislike spending time alone with themselves? I genuinely struggle to wrap my head around this.
One of my favorite responses in my Social Interaction Toolkit is:
"Why do you ask?"
Allistic people tend to ask one question when they actually mean something quite different (this is one of many ways in which allistic people are strange and exotic). So when I don't want to hazard guessing, my default response is to cheerfully respond to ambiguous questions with "Why do you ask?"
Usually if I do it casually, people don't notice I didn't answer the original question, and instead move on to their Actual Question. (Also works if you just prefer to give noncommittal answers.) Very very basic example but:
Person: "Are you busy/what are you doing this weekend?"
You (too tired to guess-and-then-calculate-an-emotional-slash-external-response based on if this is a prelude to a social invitation, an acquaintance asking for a favor, a coworker asking to trade shifts, boss wanting you to work overtime, etc): *vague but friendly smile* Why do you ask?
Person: Well I wanted to know if....
Very useful shortcut/cheatcode
So when are we gonna talk about the east asian fetishism problem in white transfem spaces
slay my name.
when are they gonna make meowing for women
No cause Percy is like aggressively American, but I refuse to believe that Will doesn’t have at least a faint Australian accent
do british pjo fans give the characters accents?? percy’s comebacks r abt to sound like “oi that’s bloody mingin awright”
100% Yes, but he definitely changed one flower/sun/whatever on each ear to be black just for Nico
will solace definitely has piercings going all the way up his ears and they’re all done by hermes campers. he wears thin, long chain earrings with stars or suns on the ends of them for his firsts and just normal circular studs or golden flowers for his seconds and thirds. The cartilage piercings are all just thick gold and are either plain or have small intricate swirls and designs.
Battle of Skandia is def one of his best books, the Will he warning the water hits me like a fucken bullet train every single time
Also consider:
- Halt telling Will he can do whatever the the fuck he wants to while training the Skandians to shoot
- The fact that the women and children aren’t just locked up somewhere and actually play a role in the battle unlike every other book/film I’ve read recently
- Actual good reason to use volleys instead of free firing
- Halt telling Horace not to give a shit about companionship when the Skandians are running alongside their horses
- Skandians straight up just keeping up with horses on foot just bc they don’t like riding them
underrated scenes from the battle of skandia
read this book in one sitting in a hotel hot tub… here we go
(every scene. it’s every scene)
- the very first page, when it takes Will a solid five minutes to figure out that the sound of dripping water means Thaw
- when Halt and Horace are heading to Skandia from Teutlandt, and Halt can tell that Horace is holding in a question, except Horace has decided not to ask the question, and Halt is going *absolutely nuts* because he wants to know what the question is
- Will tracking Evanlyn and the Temujai who captured her for hours on foot through the snow, despite being desperately out of shape, and he continues on by remembering everything Evanlyn’s done for him
- Halt arriving just in time to save will from the Temujai, and they’re both crying at the reunion. also Tug going batshit crazy when he senses Will in the vicinity and then refusing to leave his side…. yes these are tears in my eyes
- Halt: “I left what I considered a fair price” for the Temujai horses… the fair price being Absolutely Nothing, of course. also, he says this was two decades ago. also, Halt is thirty-six in this scene.
- when Halt and Erak scout the Temujai army for the first time and Halt shoots the Temujai scout from behind cover by picturing where he is in his mind!! what the fuck!!!
- when Halt and Erak escape from the Temujai army and Halt slaps Erak’s horse with his bow to keep it galloping and Erak is clinging on for dear fucking life
- when Halt and Erak return from scouting the Temujai army and Erak dismounts his horse by falling face-first into a snowdrift
- Will regaining his shooting ability, and Erak returning his double knife scabbard because he hoards everything he gets his hands on
- Evanlyn going nuts because she can’t help with the war effort, sneaking onto Slagor’s ship, being trapped there for eighteen hours, discovering an undercover plot, getting exposed as Duncan’s daughter and invoking Ragnak’s Vallasvow to kill her, and turning the fuckin tables on Slagor by exposing him in turn
- Halt dressing up as a Skandian in extremely oversized clothing and subsequently throwing up in the Skandian helmet
- Will and Halt recruiting and training a hundred slaves as archers for the battle, and Will demonstrating incredible leadership skills despite being?? seventeen??
- every moment during the battle, when the little plots and counterattacks that Halt has devised goes exactly to plan, including: Will’s first archer volley taking down an entire Ulan (group of sixty), Will facing literally fifty Kaijin sharpshooters, Horace being the ultimate shieldmate, and Evanlyn directing volleys like a badass. this trio is unmatched.
- also, randomly, POVs from FOUR temujai characters, including the intelligence colonel that exposes Will and Horace’s archers. honestly appreciated because they broke up the battle scenes and Flanagan actually did a fair bit of worldbuilding and characterization
- Horace and Will fighting back-to-back, and Horace tells Will to duck and he flips his sword behind him and stabs the Temujai that Will is fighting
- Evanlyn facing down the deputy general of the Temujai army and his personal bodyguard, not being the slightest bit afraid, and the moment before the downstroke Will throws a knife and kills him
- Halt: “there is not the SLIGHTEST chance Erak becomes Oberjarl” then Erak: “i’m the new Oberjarl” Halt: “i fuckin called it. reverse psychology”
- Horace being knighted by Duncan and appointed to the Royal Guard.
- when Crowley returns Halt’s silver oakleaf and Halt knows that he’s home at last.
It’s insane how many organs will just Make Rocks if left up to their own devices. Kidneys. Gall bladder. Pancreas. Tonsils, what’s that about???
Fun history facts: One of the 31 people arrested at Stonewall on June 28th 1969 was American folk singer Dave Van Ronk, who was not at the Stonewall Inn at the time and was cis & straight as far as I'm aware. He'd been eating dinner at a nearby restaurant when he noticed a riot happening, said "Well I suppose I should go see what the fuss is about," stepped outside, and immediately started throwing bricks at the cops.
Like to charge RB to cast
We need to keep making 9/11 jokes until some corporation tries to jump in on the meme and gets promptly executed by the public