#locke's estate

[clockworkbee]

| Welcome to Holly Black's Faerieland

part ii

#elfhame #the palace of elfhame #madoc's stronghold #locke's estate #lake of masks #the cruel prince #the wicked king #queen of nothing #the folk of the air #tfota #holly black #tfota edits #clockworkbee edits

[lloydfrontera]

In my opinion, the reason the reunion scene was skipped was because the author couldn’t figure out a way to write it non-romantically and gave up after a while

honestly. i kinda agree with you nonnie.

it just. the set up to the scene is sooooo romantic. you have lloyd being absolutely devastated at the thought he's not going to see any of his loved ones ever again and that he's been dropped back into his terrible life, to the place he admitted he'd rather die than go back to,,, and then someone knocks at the door and when he opens it this is the sight that greets him:

his best friend, the person he's closest to, the one he's spent years with, the one he promised a peaceful life at his side, the one he wanted to grow old with, the one he sacrificed everything for, the one he effectively gave his life to save, the one he thought he'd never see again, standing at his door, having crossed literal dimensional barriers to get to him, a soft and teary smile on his face as he tells him "i missed you"

like. c'mon.

i'm all for platonic interpretations, i'm aroace, i love me a good best friendship as much as the next guy, but,,,, isn't this,,, like,,, really fucking romantic??? extremely so??? am i??? reading too much into it?? because it feels really, really romantic to me.

and like you say. where do you go from there. what response could lloyd give that doesn't involve throwing himself at javier and clinging to him with all of his strength. what conversation could these two have that doesn't involve them seeing how truly devoted they are to each other. what resolution does their arc together have that isn't them spending the rest of their lives together, at each other's side, like they so dearly wanted to.

but. alas. that wasn't the story bk moon wanted to tell. and that's very much his right. i just think that if he didn't want me to assume there's no in-character and narratively satisfying version of that conversation that doesn't end with them kissing he should've at least tried to give us something. and not completely skipped it lol

but that's just my opinion too :]

#hey i got an ask #Anonymous #tged #the greatest estate developer #tged spoilers #lloyd frontera #javier asrahan #llojavi #ch 401 #and like. god. this really was his favorite scene to write uh. #i just. i don't get it. what was going through his head. what was he thinking. what was the point of all of This. #i just need ten minutes locked in a room with him. preferably with a translator but i am willing to compromise. just gimme ten minutes. #i can make him spill the soup i know this #fuck if i think too long about how this is the. second last chapter we get. before we officially end the novel with the two of them sharing #a relieved smile at the fact they can finally live their lives together without worries. i do go a little crazy. #this would probably be a hot take if there were enough opinions about tged for it to be considered spicy in the first place. but. i don't #love the extra chapters. the one with javier making a wish to a shooting star is acceptable tho it does create more questions than answers. #but the others are. meh. i would've much preferred if tged had ended in ch 401 with an open ending. maybe ch 402 if only because i did want #to see lloyd interact with arcos and marbella as suho. but there would be no last minute shoehorned wedding in my ideal ending. #i just!! i don't like forced romance!!!! i don't like compulsory amato/heteronormativity!!!!!! #i want my fictional relationships to have proper build up and chemistry and to be narratively satisfying!!!!!!! fuck!!!!!!! #i'm good. i'm okay. this is fine. we're all fine. #anyway. yeah

[monthlymanga]

Top 5 Best manga/manhua/manhwa I've read in 2022

1. The Greatest Estate Developer

A lovely read all around, loved both the protagonists. The characters, the plot point, the comedic humor, the concerning facial expressions of Loid's really made the year an enjoyable one.

2. Mairimashita! Iruma-kun

Every chapter had me hyped and rooting for Iruma and his friends, definitely one of my favorites!! One of the best Mangas that depicted amazing character development for all characters.

3. Blue lock

One of the most hyped animes of the year, the manga is just as...no, it's twice as good! Not only is the main character a breath of fresh air, all characters in this anime as well is just as interesting!

4. Nevermore

A lovely fantasy webtoon filled with many Edgar Allen Poe references. Not only is the artstyle absolutely magnificent! It also has a plot that truly has me staying up at midnight trying to think of possible solutions and theories.

5. Nanbaka

A reread after two or so years but still a delight! Every character gives me gender envy and the colors are so satisfying in a "my brain calms down" way.

#manga recommendation #manga reccs #manhua recommendation #manhwa recommendation #mairimashita! iruma kun #the greatest estate developer #blue lock #nanbaka #nevermore

[thegallavault]

currently locked in The Gallavault 🔒📚✨

ESTATE OF BLOOD AND TRUST by SUZY_QUEUE ↳ ↳ with cover art by SUZY_QUEUE

Multi-Chapter | Rated: E | Word Count: 79K | Completed in: 2021

Mickey mows lawns for the Chicago elite. So what if he bends clients' trust to snag an iPad or a watch now and then? Ian spends evenings servicing Lip's business contacts. He likes the security of his family's wealth, but he longs for romance and independence. When his landscaping firm gets hired at the family mansion, Mickey hatches a plan to rob them of everything they have. Will he succeed, or will that annoying middle Gallagher screw up his plan?

[ download from The Gallavault | leave love on AO3 | follow the creator @suzy-queued]

#currently locked in The Gallavault #multi chapter #estate of blood and trust #suzy_queue #shameless #shameless fanfiction #shameless fan art #shameless fanart #gallavich #gallavich fanfiction #gallavich fanfic #gallavich fanart #gallavich fandom #ian x mickey #ian x mickey fanfic #ian x mickey fanart #ian gallagher #mickey milkovich

[cervideity]

who was gonna tell me that four swords anniversary edition can be played singleplayer

#I ONLY GOT IT BC I WANTED TO LOOK AT THE CUTSCENE I ASSUMED ID BE LOCKED OUTTA ANYTHING... OH MY GOD #i literally WAS locked outta it on my friends gba !!!!!! i did not expect. oh my gofd #i dont have a gamecube and im unsyre if my tiny laptop could handle emulated fsa online. so i just. assumed i couldnt play any fs game #. oh my god. #BEST DAY OF MY LIFE #putting this on main bc im estatic rn.

[thatgirlonstage]

The two nickels situation that is John Gaius and John AdventureZone (if i had a nickel for every guy named John who started a cult and then destroyed the world and killed everyone in it because his nihilism got way out of hand and he believed Only He Could Fix It so then he resurrected everyone in a new form to try and take another run at getting the concept of life right this time except as an unintended side effect the universe is now being eaten alive, I’d have two nickels, etc) has given me the thought what if Merle Highchurch interacting with the Ninth House and god. God. The sheer number of brain bleaching bad sexual innuendos he and Gideon would go through in their first five minutes of interaction

#what if Merle highchurch interacting with John Gaius is fucking prime real estate too #fucking Jod man over here faced with the funky little Pan guy #who continued to worship a god across planes he didn’t even exist in #…I have feelings about Merle’s relation to Pan and religion okay #but really #can you imagine #locked tomb #taz #taz: balance

[doortotomorrow]

A MEMORI MOMENT IN EVERY EPISODE - Emori taking Murphy away from Becca's Island on her boat (3x01 Wanheda I)

#The 100 #John Murphy #Emori #Memori #the100 #the Memori moments in this episode don't take up much real estate on screen #but they pack an extreme wallop on two fronts #first is how Emori arrives bathed in the light of her boat's searchlight #becoming a beacon of light and salvation for Murphy after being locked in the darkness of the bunker for 86 days #and then there's Murphy deciding to leave with her in the first place #for him to do that was a tremendous leap of faith considering what happened the last time he saw her #further cementing the core theme of his character arc: faith #it all starts here

[biblionerd07]

I’m always going to be annoyed that Bradford’s will just says his children and doesn’t exclude future children like what kind of shitty ass ambulance chaser did he go to. Any 2L in a wills and estates class could’ve told you that was a loophole waiting to get exploited. Dumbass cheating ass fool.

#ugly Betty #Bradford Meade #what actually bugs me is that I’m supposed to believe a multi-millionaire didn’t have a good estate lawyer #if there’s one thing rich old white guys have on lock it’s their estate planning

[pasdetrois]

pledging my sword to nastasya filippovna

#i am so compelled by her despite it being early days in the book. her face betraying a vicious sorrow even through her portrait; #the law being no obstacle to how far she is willing to go to have her justice; #also the brief mention of her losing her sister (the last person left to her at that point) was so sad #i doubt any of the characters will give her occasion to bring it up but i wonder how she felt locked away in that estate then #she reminds me a bit of grushenka but i worry her fate may take a more ominous turn with the now 3? men #who are equal parts obsessed with and terrified by her #the idiot #🍓.txt

[carsonphillips]

Now that we've bought a house and are planning a wedding I feel like I've unlocked new small talk categories

#new options in my sims socialization menu you know #i didn't know shit about real estate and now i'm like 'market is crazy right now huh? interest rates are wild we locked in at 6.99'

[socialmediasocrates]

the great thing about bringing back an old dnd player character to be your baldur's gate 3 fic character is that you've had like four years to iron out the backstory and they have just...so much more trauma now

the less great thing is when you characterize them in such a way that it would be entirely in character for their love interest to literally never find out about it or, if they did, to think it wasn't, like, that bad

#mothspeak #with pace and a fury defiant #rip balalafay #sorry you have no conceptualization of relationships that aren't about someone using you #outside of your family who think you're so precious you should never leave the estate #girl fr was like yeah i mean they prefer that i not leave the estate and i prefer that i do #babe 💀 they bodily threw you in your room #your room locks from the outside #they locked you in your room for a literal decade and put bars on all the windows #why did i characterize you like this #will balalafay ever stop understating her own trauma and hang ups #the answer is no and that's why the cutie gets broken

[anx1oustig3r]

living in denmark: aaw look at all the cute dogs walking around! i can't wait to get a dog!

after a week visiting ireland: i dont like dogs anymore

#before anyone screams in my ask box #i do like dogs i just #fucking hate irish dog owners #dog barking has legit become a misophonia trigger bc of everyone on my parents estate #just locking their dogs outside to go ballistic and bark until they lose their voices #one fucking guy left his clearly seperation anxiety dog locked out all night #and i got no sleep that night #dog owners are like parents of out of control toddlers in a restaurant #we have no leash laws here either so enjoy the amount of half feral dogs that will bite you if you walk past them #for the longest time i had a phobia of dogs from that shit

[lloydfrontera]

CRYING LLOYD AND JAVIER OUTSIDE THE DOOR NOVEL ART HAVE YOU SEEN IT

YEAH. YEAH I DID

OH MY GOD

i had already been screaming a fair bit about chapters 383-384 because it's just hit after hit after hit in these ones, but i wanted to wait until i had a free moment to properly get my thoughts down on this specific scene and Oh Boi. am i glad i did.

LOOK AT THEM. LOOK AT THEM AND TELL ME YOU DON'T GO A LITTLE BIT INSANE.

is in this chapter that we finally get a real glimpse to how lloyd is feeling about all this. he's faced down everything, he's overcome every obstacle that's come his way, he's holding everything together because he knows that if he slips up even once it's game over for everyone and he's done it all on his own with a smile on his face.

and then we get to this scene, which is right after a moment in which lloyd finally allows himself to realize how much he actually cares about his new family and then he sees a bran new way in which he's gonna die,,,

and he just breaks

he starts crying and sobbing because he's terrified, he's so afraid of what his future looks like because he doesn't want to die. he really, really doesn't want to die and he doesn't want to die in such a painful frightening way and he doesn't want to drag others into dying with him

and it's heartbreaking!

all through the novel we do see that lloyd isn't very fond of the idea of dying, like really, he's not that into self-sacrifice and he'd rather find another of solving his problems thank you very much. but it's not until this very moment, that it really hits you how terrifying his situation really is for him. how much pressure and stress and strain he's been under while looking for a way to avoid the restoration of fate all by himself.

and then it cuts to javier. listening through the door. javier who knows that lloyd, that this fake lloyd, has been hiding something for a very long time, who constantly looks the other way whenever there's something that doesn't quite fit the way it should, who has gone through literal hell and back for him because he follows him unconditionally,,,

and who now has to hear the person he trusts the most in the world break down alone in his room because he's terrified of dying but doesn't trust javier enough to show it in front of him. because for some reason he refuses to share his burden and lean on javier the way he's allowed everyone else to lean on him.

and javier is angry

he's angry because lloyd should tell him if he's afraid, he should tell him if he needs help, he should just tell javier so javier can do whatever lloyd needs him to do.

because that's his friend and his friend is stupid but javier won't allow him to go and do something stupid like dying.

that's what javier is for. to protect him. so he shouldn't be afraid of dying because that won't happen. and if it ever did, then it would be javier who'd die instead. if it was for lloyd... he'd be happy to do so.

but even as javier decides this he still has to hear lloyd cry all alone and it hurts

AND THEN THE NEXT MORNING HE TRIES. HE TRIES SO HARD.

he gives lloyd a chance to tell him! he asks and prods and tries to get him to tell him if he's worried about something, if he had a nightmare, if he's in trouble, he just!! tries so hard to get lloyd to trust him!! to lean on him for help!!

but lloyd refuses because he's so used to being on his own that now it's not only second nature but also a true belief of his that when push comes to shove he's on his own. that he needs to resolve all of his problems all by himself.

especially the restoration of fate. because it's his fault that it's happening in the first place. it his fault that everything is in danger so it's his responsibility to fix it.

he can't ask another person to shoulder the burden for him.

IT'S JUST!!! THEY'RE SOOOO!!! MMMGHHH!!! THEY GIVE ME A NEW MENTAL ILLNESS!!! I'M SOOO NORMAL ABOUT THEM I SWEAR!!

these chapters are so important for the dynamic they have until the end of the novel, these moments are how the rest of their relationship develops, this!!! javier wanting lloyd to trust him and to lean on him for help and lloyd refusing to do so out of guilt and a misguided sense of responsibility!! this is how it continues until the very end!! and it never gets resolved!!! bk moon answer for your fucking crimes!!!

anyway

as you can see. i am very normal about these illustrations :)

#hey i got an ask #lunacurse #the greatest estate developer #the greatest estate developer spoilers #lloyd frontera #also fucking tell me this doesn't look romantic as fuck #like c'mon #tell me this isn't right out of a romance kdrama #look me in the eyes and tell me this isn't some gay shit #i am telling you you could make this novel a bl and it'd be smooth as butter #barely any changes at all #they have the strongest dynamic aside from lloyd and his parents #and they're the real slow burn of the story #godddd whyyyyyy #give me five minutes in a locked room with bk moon and google translate and i can change his mind please just five minutes i promise- #javier asrahan #tged

[thetiredstuff]

As a person who loves drama as long as it doesn’t involve me and who is also a bit of a rubberneck, living in my street truly is never boring. Just had a guy break someone’s nose in front of my house who then tried to steal our neighbor’s flag of Portugal at 5 in the morning

#never a dull moment where I live #last year someone kicked it my neighbor’s door at like 2 in the morning #and the year before my other neighbor locked himself out of the house after a night of drinking so he took a very smelly dump in the middle #of the street at 3 in the morning #and a couple years before that someone’s car broke down in front of our house at like 1 in the morning #and last year someone left their sigaret in a wooden ashtray which then caught fire and so the entire fire department had to come at like 1 #in the morning and eventually the house was too badly damaged on the inside #never a dull moment #oh and a few years ago the guy living a few doors down died and then the police ended up searching his entire estate cuz he had something to #do with a murder that happened in the city #it’s the same man that used to lay in his front yard while he was shitting himself because he was so drunk #and then of course you had the old man who killed cats and hung them up on a wire outside #just normal things ya know #never a dull moment in my street #you’d think I’d live like in a weird ass neighborhood when actually I live about 4 streets away from the cops lol #me

[msommers]

me sitting in my chair staring at an empty space on my desk for 5 minutes straight thinking about meredith and anora like

#you're 12 and at your first landsmeet‚ hovering at your father's side as you work up the courage to socialize w the nobles #a lady engages you and shares that she was near your age when her own father first brought her to the council #you meet her once every year at the same council and see each other grow—a lady and a queen #you admire her strength and skills at court just as she respects your growing into your own #you rush to her rescue after her father has stolen her power and let her be tossed into a cell with no key #she betrays you at the first moment that she can and expects forgiveness later once you've fought your way out of hell #but you've struggled to find your capacity for forgiveness since a betrayal claimed your family and countless people of your teyrnir #you've been given a rage that you'll struggle with for the rest of your life and now part of it has been turned on this old friend #a bridge that will never be rebuilt bc you're both too angry and hurt and irrevocably change by the fifth blight #anyway. mere keeps her locked in a tower for years and then gives her a guarded estate or smth when she's calmed down #(calmed down i say. she's threatening anora before she leaves lmfao the rage never rests) #ch: meredith cousland

[goopiguess]

JUST ROLL WITH IT IS STREAMING.

Apple plush, origami fish, origami frog, origami Jay Ferin, pride hat, all on top of a shit emoji hat

This is the setup

#also #I’ve been subscribed to Just Roll With It for a month. #AND I NEVER REALIZED. #what the fuuuuck #i’ve been locked out of my home of 15 years by estate agents… i deserve to live there #why is that a tag #jrwishow #jrwi riptide #just roll with it #just roll with it show #jrwi #jrwi stream #why no tags for apple #jrwi jay ferin #jay ferin jrwi #jay jrwi #jrwi jay #jay ferin #origami #origami bird #origami fish #origami frog #jrwi felipe #felipe jrwi #jrwi gillion tidestrider #gillion tidestrider jrwi #gillion jrwi #gillion tidestrider #jrwi gillion #I’m so prepared for this episode. Just kidding! It’s impossible to be prepared when GrizzlyPlays is such a great DM!