#trying to wax poetic

[haunted-xander]

And so I, the fool, bleeds to play the saviour

#was reading the lorebook & got hit with Inspiration™ while reading the crystal braves & bloody banquet sections #oh alphinaud. undone by his righteousness and arrogance #trying to change the world when you are an inexperienced and naive kid doesnt tend to end well #ambition can only get you so far #alphinaud leveilleur #a real reborn #final fantasy #final fantasy 14 #final fantasy xiv #ff14 #ffxiv #art #my art #xanders art #xanders haunting art #digital art #fan art #i love waxing poetic btw can you tell. its so fun

[violent138]

Real fights are messy and I'm sure biting, scratching, scrambling away on your ass are all on the table and encouraged, but sparring matches in the Batcave between the Bats are probably sick as fuck when they try (aka the siblings are not bent on just beating the shit out of each other), because they're using a meld of techniques from about a hundred different martial arts, tapping into their unique strengths, and a near inhuman reading of each other (both from years of working together and experience) and an insane reflex time.

#Sorry not sorry I will always wax poetic about how fucking cool it would be to see these guys' hard earned combat experience in action #Like even if you just watch two different martial arts like jiu-jitsu and shaolin Kung fu fighters try to figure each other out and adapt #It's amazing (depending on technique and experience level) #Will share more specific and eloquent thoughts if and when I ever have them again #Batman #Batfamily #Dc comics #Batcave #Batcave shenanigans #dcu

[scoobit9]

Huge fucking Jooster dump you know the drill

#just in case people like lookin at these lol #in the first one jeeves got bertie out of bed so they could go on an early morning walk #and he starts waxing poetic about the dew or some rot #i have like two and a half different versions of bertie bouncing around in my head does anyone relate #like they're all just so Him and i love them all dearly #and then by comparison jeeves is completely homogenized into one guy LMFAO #i at least try to have some sorta difference between Fry Jeeves and Book Jeeves... book Jeeves is more angular #ANYWAYS... #jooster #jeeves and wooster #reginald jeeves #bertie wooster #jeeves #p. g. wodehouse #art #fanart

[celerydays]

I am far too tired for this holiday weekend 😪

#born to sleep yet forced to socialize~ #gotta muster up the energy to try and act like a normal person around people I don’t know tonight 💪 #it’s a losing battle I know already #watch me about to wax poetic about Ominis to a bunch of strangers at a holiday party oop 🥴 #hogwarts legacy #hogwarts legacy fanart #ominis gaunt #sketch #celdraws #celerydays #hl #hl art

[hammity-hammer]

“Isn’t it hard?”

The sunlight wove its way through the mess of curls on Eddie’s head, keeping Steve’s attention from the person next to him. Eddie seemed like he was glowing— like the light was coming from somewhere deep inside of him, rather than millions of miles away; like he was the center of their solar system, the warmth emitting from him keeping their little planets alive.

Steve felt a bony elbow nudge just under his shoulder, pulling him from his thoughts, “Huh?”

“Is it not hard? Loving him?” Dustin asked quietly, nodding his head toward the man laughing and running around with the rest of the party. Steve glanced at Dustin, trying to figure out how he should even broach answering that question, knowing that any explanation he gave would never make sense. How could it not be hard; falling so deeply in love with someone that won’t ever love him back? Knowing that he just had to be the guy to get some kind of fucked up curse that made him incapable of mutual romantic love?

“I… think it’s easy, honestly.” Steve shrugged, trying to keep his face from revealing his obvious lie.

Eddie’s laughter drew Steve’s attention back to him, the sound of his joy bringing a reflexive smile to his face.

“It doesn’t bother you? That he just… doesn’t love you the way you love him?” Dustin rested his chin on his crossed arms, sounding for all the world like he was the one who was unloveable.

“You can’t make people love you, kid, you know that. And you know I’m happy just to have him in my life; he can’t help the way his brain works.” Steve copied Dustin’s movement, turning his head so he could look at the younger man. That’s what he was now— a man, for all intents and purposes, and every time he remembered that, it made a bittersweet feeling bloom in Steve’s chest.

Dustin rolled his eyes, “Obviously you can’t, but he loves you! I see the way he is with you and that’s love! But he won’t just… be your boyfriend, or whatever, and I don’t get that, man.”

Steve sighed, “Not everything is about romance, Dustin. I love you, but I love you like a brother. I love Robin, and you were convinced for basically forever that she and I were end-game. He just happens to love me the way I love Robin, he can’t help it.”

He moved his gaze back to the group in front of them, his eyes instantly finding Eddie again. He was chasing Erica, running with his hands in claw shapes near his head like he was trying to look like some creepy vampire, or something. She was laughing uncontrollably as she ran, weaving through their other friends who were trying to behave semi-normally. Eddie’s head turned momentarily to where Steve and Dustin were sitting at their picnic table and a grin grew on his face when he made eye contact with Steve.

“I just don’t get it, though. Why can’t he love you like that? You’re like, a catch or whatever, aren’t you?” Dustin frowned, ignoring the finger wave Steve sent Eddie’s way to stare at the woodgrain on the table in thought.

Steve turned his head back to Dustin and unfolded his arms a bit to pat him on the head, “Doesn’t matter, man. I love him, he knows I love him, and how I love him, and he’s okay with it, even if he doesn’t feel the same. I just want to keep him near me however I can, and if that’s as my best friend, then that’s as my best friend.”

Dustin sighed deeply, seemingly giving up on his fight for Steve to finally get himself a partner, and Steve thanked everything he could think of for that.

#steddie but platonic #steve harrington #eddie munson #steve harrington yearning for eddie like always #aromantic!eddie munson #stranger things #does this count as whump?? #idk it’s a little angsty i guess #steve harrington feeling unlovable #yes this is me projecting it’s fine #dustin henderson being a dork and wanting his dads to be together #dustin henderson #steve waxing poetic about how pretty eddie is for a bit (in his head ofc) #one sided love #steve trying vaguely to explain romantic vs platonic love to dustin #and dustin just not getting it bc he is a child

[honeyhobies]

happy punkflower wipwed i'm making them sweet

#this thing is already over 10k words and half of it is just vague outlining someone sedate me #still trying to figure out how to write them but Man am i having fun! #edit: oh i realized the first one might need a lil context. they've met their older versions from a different dimension #and that hobie took - 0.001 seconds to start waxing poetic about their relationship to a very flustered miles lol #punkflower #spiderverse

[tbookblurbs]

The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era 1, #1)

5/5 - fabulous characters, heist novel, Vin my beloved!! start of a truly fabulous trilogy, really innovative magic

SPOILERS BELOW!!!

This was the first Sanderson novel I read and it really captured my heart (as it probably obvious). As such, it holds a special place of honor To Me as one of his superior works.

The Final Empire is excellent for a number of reasons. First, it's a heist movie in a book. Think Ocean's 11 (2018). The crew is all very likeable and they come together to put together a truly insane plan. The best part is that, at several points in the story, key elements of the plan go completely wrong. It's delightful. Nothing is better than watching characters who are supposed to be clever actually act clever.

TFE is also distinct amongst many trilogy consisting of a fight against an evil overlord in that the fight happens and succeeds in the very first book. It doesn't take them the usual first attempt, minor success, second attempt horrific failure, and third attempt actual victory that usually happens over the course of fantasy trilogies. This also means they actually have to have the philosophical discussions that usually get tossed to the wayside regarding what to do after a revolution succeeds. Delicious I tell you.

Sanderson is also a master of describing places that are foreign compared to Earth and then sells these concepts by changing the way that characters behave. People thinking plants being green would just be weird? Extra notes of importance on the color white because of all the ash? The world doesn't only look different, which is common in most fantasy settings, but the characters feel like they're from somewhere totally different, which some books are not successful at.

Allomancy as a concept is also something that's super distinctive to me. Sanderson is pretty well-known in fantasy circles for defining "hard" and "soft" magic and he abides pretty strictly by those rules.

And the cherry on top of the cupcake is Vin. My beloved. Her struggle with identity, trust issues, her own power, it's just everything to me. She goes through a whole "I'm not like other girls" arc and yet she's still struggling. She's immensely powerful and yet so inexperienced. I love her. I would do anything for her.

Also Vin and Elend's romance is just so cute. You have to feel for Vin the whole time. They have my whole heart.

Now having read The Secret History, I still harbor some conflicted feelings towards Kelsier. He's such a good father figure to Vin (which makes him dying so heartbreaking) but his whole religious arc still leaves me feeling weird.

PS: If you would like some really good Vin art, or good Sanderson art in general, I highly recommend @lamaery their Vin design and their costume design is !!! crazy good

#I could wax poetic about this book #AND I WILL #i didn't even get to talk about Sazed or ab Ham's philosophy discussions or the mist or the POLITICAL MANEUVERING?? #but i'm trying to be brief. i love this book. #only problem is that Elend is blond and I just don't think blond men are pretty :/ sorry Elend #mistborn #the final empire #mistborn spoilers #vin venture #kelsier #mistborn era 1 #cosmere #book review #fantasy #high fantasy #brandon sanderson #elend venture

[nat-without-a-g]

The message about Henry being the unsung hero possibly appearing in front of Lark during the final battle of season 1 is a little funny to me because Terry Jr. and Grant were both sitting near Lark to act as the navigator and backseat driver.

“… Hey Lark, what’s that about—“

“I’m sure it’s nothing! (Slams foot on gas)”

#dungeons and daddies #dndads #dndads season 1 #dndads spoilers #lark oak garcia #sparrow was sitting alone in the back so it probably went to him #but I don’t think it was specified which twin it went to. #I KNOW the season 1 kids had a Lot to talk about after the doodler was summoned #and by talk I mean lark and sparrow probably got yelled at by two-three other very confused and upset kids #especially since unless Willy was waxing poetic about elder gods— terry’s the only kid who knew about the doodler #or unless the twins mentioned that they really wanted to fight a deity while traveling with Walter #‘so what were you guys up to before your dad showed up?’ ‘we became the head of a cult!’ ‘there was a fight pit!’ ‘right of course you did’ #‘we were trying to summon a god to slay it!’ ‘uh-huh and I’m sure it was going well.’ ‘we almost did it!’ ‘of course you did’

[captainjonnitkessler]

There's a certain type of person who's like . . . "Well, atheists/skeptics are joyless close-minded assholes. I mean, OBVIOUSLY religion/superstition isn't LITERALLY real, only an IDIOT would think anyone was taking it LITERALLY, you only believe that people mean what they say because you're only familiar with Christianity, everyone ELSE is using religion as some kind of extended metaphor for humanity or just believing in things for funsies"

And it's like . . . a) that's frankly more insulting than anything I was probably saying and b) if you also don't believe something is literally true why are you getting so mad that I am saying that something is not literally true

#it's like a motte and bailey argument where they mean everything literally #until you try to point out that they're just plain wrong at which point they were only speaking metaphorically; OBVIOUSLY. #thinking back to that one time a popular tumblr user got in an argument with someone about whether animism was 'true' #and the popular blog kept waxing poetic about souls and colonies of bacteria and lichen and how #just because that's not the words indigenous people used doesn't mean that isn't what they meant when they said rocks were alive #and the other person was like . . . no. animism suggests that rocks have souls. and they don't #and people got SO MAD #atheism #skepticism umbrella

[ackee]

art doesnt always have to Do anything, just Be.. its an outlet.. a fun way to pass the time... as long as you're having fun thats all that matters ❤️

#waxing poetic bc i heard a song that was so bad and terrible and having to remind myself art is for everyone #they should die though for wasting my brain space with that though <- trying to be nice #txt

[butchdykekondraki]

never trust me to give you writing recommendations i'll just send you to a mutuals blog or tell you to read paradise lost books 1-12 . and even then i'll recommend my mutuals blog first

#[ren] #i'll wax poetic about my mutuals art and yet everytime i try to talk about john miltons stuff my most coherent thoughts are ''lucifer trans #-allegory . send post'' and thats like. all i can think of without bursting at the seams with shrimp emotions

[dustteller]

Now that I am mostly over the Absolutely Feral stage of my Radiant Emperor Obsession and can think again, I want to do a proper write up on how the series handles colonialism. I need to get my sources together and make it all pretty and stuff, but the gist of it is this.

I actually really respect SPC for not making it A Thing. Like, the colonialism is an inherent part of the serting, and a lot of important moments hinge around it, but there's also a pretty clear refusal by the author to turn it into A Statement. I think they do a really good job of walking the fine line between aknowledging it and making it clear that its an important part of the setting, without turning the book into a political thesis on Why Bad Actually.

I think a lot of fantasy authors that frankly have no business making their books into political science treatises try to be super philosophical about it, and inevitably have almost all their points ring flat bc the main character almost always ends up perpetuating the system they spent the whole book critiquing. The classic example being, of course, "We've destroyed The Evil Empire! We will now replace it with The Good Empire, which is functionally identical to The Evil Empire except Good bc our Main Character is in charge! This will totally change the systemic issues we've spent the last three million words exploring! How? Don't worry about it, absolute power only corrupts you if you're A Bad Person!" (atla. atla i am looking at you. my love for you does not mean I am letting you off the hook.)

The Radiant Emperor books interact with and aknowledge the colonialism. The empire canonically falls at least in part because of one guy's willfull ignorance of the differences between his culture and that of two of the people he loves the most, because his culture supercedes theirs to the point where he does not even consider the posibility of this difference truly existing as a real-life power imbalance. And still, these books are not about that! That is not the main theme! It is important. It is handled pretty well, it is aknowledged, and it is not The Point. I really appreciate that more understated approach that SPC takes, because ironically by refusing to partake in dramatic philosophical grandstanding the media often ends up making way better and more nuanced points, because then their point actually fits into the story they are trying to tell.

#white men really read three of the foundational texts of political science #none of which are from the last century and a half mind you #and immediately decide they're qualified to wax poetic about how politics should work actually #also white people really loooove writing about colonialism and imperialism while refusing to engage with any decolonial literature #you read The Prince and Hobbes' Leviathan huh. so did all polisci undergraduates. you are neither smart nor special<3 #like seriously at least read some of W.E.B. Du Bois. its the most basic accessible uncontroversial decolonial literature out there #it wont kill u i promise <3 try venerating a black man even half as hard as u do basic white men it'll change your life for the better. #by making you more interesting at the very least #ok ok i got derrailed there #thank you SPC! I appreciate you! please write more! #i promise the actual write up will be. less ranty. #my thoughts #the radiant emperor

[holocene-sims]

a sneak peek for an upcoming (timeline tbd) update 😊

#holocene.txt #hlcn: story extras #consider this a thanks for the kind words on gratitude day :) #i wanna respond to everyone individually when i have time and also wax poetic about how much every comment means to me #it really does mean a lot #it's been a rough year and a very lonely year like i'm genuinely just so :/ #i lost both of my grandmothers this year very suddenly and the holidays feel empty now and i'm dealing with scary health issues #i finally had a brain mri after waiting for it to get scheduled since JUNE and now i have to wait on results and undergo some other testing #and i'm losing my mind a little because i planned a nice christmas gift for my mom and it feels ruined because the post office lost it #and my dad ruined the whole surprise of it by calling customer support on speaker phone with her in the room...and she ofc heard everything #i just wanted something nice for my mom :( she deserves it and although i have other gifts for her still it's not all what i planned #i don't mean to rant but i just wanted to add context when i say it means a lot that anyone even remotely likes my pixels #i may not know most of you very well *yet* (trying to fix that!!) but it's nice to feel a little support from somewhere :) beyond nice #and sorry for being absent a lot this year but i swear i have so much appreciation for y'all and i love you and your pixels dearly #i always feel bad like maybe it doesn't seem like i care in return bc i'm offline a lot now but i really do!! i care a lot!! love y'all xox

[placetneplacet]

Poor Raindrop, it’s not as fun to wax poetic about P’Payu’s perfection if no one is paying attention…

#love in the air #payurain #and Sky #why don’t you try waxing poetic at Sig for a bit instead Raindrop?

[fandomsoda]

the night is quiet, my friends are silent. yet I still watch as they continue with their day. they’re not gone as I once feared, but to them I have disappeared. and it’s strange to me how few of them notice that I’ve faded away…

#vent poetry #I’m not trying to whine and stuff I just like waxing poetic about things it makes them feel better

[camels-pen]

Okay but consider tough… Vampire au Sanuso where Sanji mistakes a bat for Usopp until Usopp comes into the door and Sanji feels extremly stupid. But he keeps the bat around as a little pet anyways and it seems to absolutely HATE Usopp. Like, full on trying to attack him all the time. Sanji promises a pouting Usopp that it’s just overprotective, it’s Apperantly wounded and he was the first one to find it. Usopp just glares at the thing and says something along the lines of „We should throw that disgusting vermin off the ship right now.“

Sanjis expression must have been one of pure terror, because as soon as Usopp sees it he backpedals, says he had a long day and he’s tired and hungry, of course Sanji can keep it if he wants to, he should probably head to sleep anyways. See you tomorrow. And Sanji guesses he really must have been tired, that cold and cruel expression on his face was very unlike the crewmate he has grown so fond of…

In hindsight he supposes this should have been his first clue that something was terribly wrong.

In the Next two weeks the crew starts feeling fainter and fainter and more sickly. Chopper expects it to be some sort of Virus going around but he can’t find any diseases that match the symptoms. Everyone is on edge but Sanji keeps noticing that Usopp… doesn’t act like himself anymore. He rarely joins them at the dinner table and he seems to even forget to take his usual blood dose from Choppers stack unless their doctor explicitly reminds him to. He seems colder to everyone as well. Unhelpful. Meanspirited. Nami worries about Zoro being sick and he basically tells her to stop worrying so much because it’s annoying. Robin mentions reading something in a book about other mythical creatures in the area and he disregards her completly. Her book mysteriously vanishes the next day. Luffy gets so sick he’s out of comissiob for a few days and his reaction is basically non existent. Franky pulls Sanji aside nervously to confess he saw something strange at night and went to tell Usopp, since it hung around his workshop and Usopp didn’t really react at all „Don’t worry about it.“ he said, not even looking up. „Your mind is probably playing tricks on you.“ and Sanji slowly begins to realize that his new pet seems to only hate Usopp this much. That it seems downright protective of all the other strawhats. That it’s a very smart animal, but even smart animals usually don’t look at you like this and you feel like they understand every single word you say. And Sanji realizes that something , SOMETHING is terribly wrong with what he thought of as Usopps until a few days ago.

Tldr: Shapeshifting and probably soulsucking creature wounds Usopp so much he has to stay in bat form (or maybe he gets cursed?) and Batsopp has been desperately trying to warn his crew that someone has taken his place and is planning to drain their life’s out one by one… and also is now realizing that „HOLY COW SANJI LIKES ME TOO? WISH I FOUND THAT OUT UNDER DIFFERENT CIRCUMSTANCES BUT WOW?!!“

ANON THIS IS PURE GOLD OH MY GOD??

The fact that he hears Sanji confess his feelings while he's just hanging out in the galley, probably trying to think up a plan to get Sanji to understand him, is so fucking funny.

Usopp, thinking: Okay, maybe I can grab some paper and write out a message-

Sanji, cooking behind him: You know it's a shame you don't like Usopp; he's a wonderful guy.

Usopp, squeaking to himself: Yeah, I am, but that thing's not me!

Sanji, laughing: Oh don't be like that, he really is great. There's a reason I fell in love with him after all.

Usopp:

Usopp, in much higher pitched squeaking: you fell in WHAT

#ask #answered #vampire usopp #sanuso #one piece #holy fuck i dig this so hard #also KJDHFGD THE FACT THAT HE HEARS SANJI'S CONFESSION OUT OF LEFT FIELD LIKE THAT WHILE TRYING TO PROTECT THEM IS SO GOOD I CANT UNDERSTAT #Usopp: oh god ohhhh my god i have to stay focused i have to get this Thing off the ship but also tehee Sanji likes me~ *blushes* #god dude this is so so good #side note: I also can't get an alternate version of this idea out of my head where Usopp thinks Sanji fell in love with the Creature #Usopp hearing Sanji wax poetic about how much he loves him: FUCK what does that creepy weird Thing have that i dont??? :( #aaaaa this was a great ask anon TYSM for sending it!