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i am not at all caught up with fantasy high freshman and sophomore year but i’ve jumped into the middle of things and this today nearly made me bawl

life kinda sucks and i haven’t time to enjoy my comfort media but junior year’s been…. it’s really been a wonderful thing to have this to look forward to every week

#brennan gives the most romantic ass speeches EVER #he hurt me with this #fantasy high junior year

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Wei ying came back haunted

#y-uhh #the untamed

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Unfortunately, Murph will never live this down

Watch the full episode here

#emily losing her mind immediately was everything #dimension 20 #fantasy high junior year

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“Lord Byron gets up at two. I get up, quite contrary to my usual custom … at 12. After breakfast we sit talking till six. From six to eight we gallop through the pine forest which divide Ravenna from the sea; we then come home and dine, and sit up gossiping till six in the morning. I don’t suppose this will kill me in a week or fortnight, but I shall not try it longer. Lord B.’s establishment consists, besides servants, of ten horses, eight enormous dogs, three monkeys, five cats, an eagle, a crow, and a falcon; and all these, except the horses, walk about the house, which every now and then resounds with their unarbitrated quarrels, as if they were the masters of it… . [P.S.] I find that my enumeration of the animals in this Circean Palace was defective … . I have just met on the grand staircase five peacocks, two guinea hens, and an Egyptian crane. I wonder who all these animals were before they were changed into these shapes.”

— Percy Bysshe Shelley on the lifestyle of Lord Byron (via timemarauder)

#ah yes... my favorite poet #mary shelley reads this drawing hearts around everything #percy shelley

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how?? just how?

#what the

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I-80 highway through Wyoming. nicknamed The Sisters, for the three sets of hills that create an optical illusion of the road rising into the sky

#I've literally had nightmares about driving into the sky and it was absolutely from when I drove this moving out to ca

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(∩❛ڡ❛∩) may you be as loved as hualian with cornetto

🍦 new donghua content (???) thanks to the latest TGCF cornetto ad clip

*I LITERALLY CANNOT TAKE ALL THE DAMN CORNETTO PUNS AND CORNETTO GOING LIKE ALRIGHT TIME FOR 500% GAY

#hell yeah we're back baby!!! #those fucking cornetto ads!!! #tgcf

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My heart is a fish Hiding in the water-grass In the green, in the green.

#breeeeeeq #i should keep reading the sequel #imperial radch

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Imagine if you had a neighbour who keeps performing songs from Phantom of the Opera in his apartment every night, by himself but accompanied by a parrot, which he has taught to sing Christine's part. Admittedly it's kind of obnoxious but you are far too baffled to even be properly annoyed. And also you don't want to confront someone with that kind of power and determination. So every once in a while you just hear this guy dramatically bellow

"SING FOR ME!"

[ASTONISHINGLY HIGH-PITCHED PARROT SHRIEK]

#perfect

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guy who makes a spreadsheet to figure out if his crush likes him back

#what you mean the first third of atfots #nine worlds #i'm swapping tags

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FJSJFJAJFJAHFOSJHDJAJDHAHDJAJDHA

#a perfect kneeslapper of a joke #happy passover everyone #jew stuff

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media: the very serious brooding asshole character is actually super deep and complex

me: ok

media: the dumb joke character is actually super deep and complex

me: ghhogoohhh. ohhhh oh mygod. oh m. oh. are you kidding me. oh i am going to throw the fuck up over this

#unfortunately my fav characters in all things

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guys you load into duty roulettes with

#so true #ffxiv

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All the hands of the emperor stuff - and presumably all of the Nine Worlds stuff by extension - is so good at balancing a variety of tones. The hope and the loss, the seriousness and the ridiculousness. The humour is sharper and sweeter because it's timed so well.

But possibly my favourite is the one that comes up in Portrait of a Wide Seas Islander.

Imagine, for a moment, that you are an emperor (among other things, but we're trying not to think about them). You are the emperor. The formality around you is extreme, most people you deal with are baseline frightened of you, hardly anyone sees beyond your ceremonial front. You are desperate not to be like the previous emperor, your uncle. All of this is very painful and difficult.

And you get this secretary, and you adore him. He's like your favourite person. And so when his great-uncle turns up and says he needs to do this cultural rite of passage ceremony, you're SO onboard. You're like, yes, fantastic, you should do this, do you wanna do it in the throne room? you should do it in the throne room, let's go. This is all very powerful and emotional and sincere.

And after this is all over, you swing by your secretary's apartments when he's out. Just being a good host, y'know, dropping in on his great uncle, making conversation. And you make this almost idle remark, a quick curious question about an element of his personal history, just being courteous.

And this ninety year old man looks you dead in the eyes, and says, in essence, "oh yeah I fucked your uncle, and he was ~mediocre~."

just. iconic, ten out of ten, no notes. Buru Tovo I love you so much.

#buru tovo an ICON #also fucking the icon ty conju #nine worlds #lays of the hearth fire

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Cliopher, finally getting half an hour to himself and immediately working out HR's secret name: were we ever really friends?? Was everything a lie?!

Meanwhile, HR, ping-ponging across three worlds in a week: boy I'm glad my good friend Kip managed to get things together so I could go on an adventure! I'm gonna light things on fire hope Kip won't have a heart attack lol. I wonder what Kip is doing right now, Oh hey Kip would get a kick out of this, oh this reminds me of my good friend KIP have I mentioned that I miss KIP recently HAVE I TOLD YOU ABOUT MY FAVORITE DUDE IN THE WORLD, KIP, MY GREAT BUDDY KIP, THE BEST GUY KIP, HAVE I MENTIONED HIM TODAY

#return of fitzroy angursall was so much fun #he mentions kip literally every 3 pages #lays of the hearth fire #nine worlds

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Just like a wizard out of a storybook 🥰

#i love so much he just turned that guy into a fucking table for being mean to kip #please do that to everyone #lays of the hearth fire

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Imagine how much faster Kip would’ve reformed the government if he had access to microsoft excel

#god so fast #lays of the hearth fire