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What do you do when God puts his hands on the table, / pink-red palms / asking for forgiveness?

What happens to forgiveness when God is your father / and you discover he’s just a man with two hands—

B: William Bearhart, from At The Dinner Table With God And My Father

#BASIM. #:(

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there are age lines on shay's face. maybe, a lifetime ago, he could have bested the boy without breaking a sweat. but he's slower now, his reflexes duller. he realizes with a sting of bitterness that, should connor attack him here, he would kill him—and, should he kill him, he would find the artifact shay had retrieved from charles dorian's still-warm corpse. he cannot allow that. "that they are not safe from the consequences of their own actions. i'd say it was a needed lesson." shay's gloved hand ghosts over the handle of his pistol, sheathed in the holster that hangs from his belt. if he's quick on the draw, connor might die in the snow before taking a step.

"connor, right? i have heard about you from oversea."

achilles' golden boy. a mock version of the son he lost. shay's heart, once easily moved to pity, does not so much as twitch at the thought of that loss—he reminds himself that achilles is still alive because he allowed it, that day in the arctic, and that he paid shay back by training a nobody that destroyed what the colonial rite had to carefully worked to build. the irony of it tastes like the ash. "tell me, what's become of the templar order?" curiosity, alongside concern, itches in him. upon his return, he'd found nothing but empty hideouts and dead ends.

@vinduri asked: they were wrong. they were all wrong. i showed them. / from shay

the surge of fury that rocketed through connor's chest was dizzying in its intensity. he had not known any of the men cut down by shay's blade, but achilles had told him enough — senseless slaughter, he had said, perpetrated by a traitor gone mad. whatever righteous quest shay might have used as an excuse was meaningless. he had turned on his comrades, decimated the brotherhood, and left the colonies weakened enough for the iron grip of the templars to crush them, as it would have done without connor's interference.

he did not attack yet. he circled like a prowling wolf, fingers twitching for the hidden blade, but he made no move towards shay. he would have his answers before silencing the man for good. "you showed them nothing but the inside of a coffin. what did you teach them except the sting of your blade?"

#SHAY. #forlibcrty #toying with the idea of shay being literally #unaware that connor is haytham's son #or—depending on the timeline—that haytham's dead. #he's like the guy with pizzas while the room is on fire.

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Two dead elks frozen to a tree.

#THE NIGHT KING. #LOKI.

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animanga muse list if you even care. 😔

bleach: sosuke aizen, askin nakk le vaar, lille barro, starrk coyote.

one piece: sir crocodile, vinsmoke sanji, rob lucci.

naruto: tobirama senju.

jjk: we'll see.

#the horrible to morally grey clown parade is in town #and then there's sanji.

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The Moon That Turns You Back, Hala Alyan

#BASIM.

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on ecoterrorism, dark ecology and the long night.

#THE NIGHT KING. #i peaked with this

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Mia Wasikowska on Stoker for The Telegraph

#GIULIO.

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the tuunbaq from the terror to the night king pipeline of a frost-born undead being who is yet carrier of a certain purity in the way that they're both agents of nature, inexorable, about as merciful as an avalanche or a landslide, who do not understand good or evil only the mission they were created to accomplish which is eradicate the cancer that is humanity

#THE NIGHT KING. #except that tuunbaq also has a decolonizing finality that #the night king lacks because he's a metaphor for climate change #in a broader sense

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allhvast á norðan, a multimuse writing blog by vinn. ¹ sideblog. ² pin. ³ carrd.

affiliates: @koldnuya, @luredeep / @griefsung, @misaentropy, @middener, @notodin, @crimewrought.

#vinn. 21+. she/her. #pinned: dni.

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#not supported/fully researched on but it seems to me that #a jötunn who follows their partner to ásaheimr is widely accepted #whereas a god/goddess who follows their jötunn partner to say jötunheimr #is frowned upon #because ásaheimr is the blessed realm and jötunheimr is the wild unkempt #primordial chaos of nature #imo that's the reason laufey following fárbauti to jötunheimr is unbecoming

i should also point out that loki does not have this strong jötunn pride they often display in various media—they like using it as leverage to tease and mock, because relationships between the gods and the jötnar have been/still are somewhat turbulent. however, loki is not oppressed for being half jötunn, nor are they even the only jötunn living in ásaheimr. affairs between gods and jötnar are frequent, and so are marriages, though it is generally preferred when the union is made up of a male god and a female jötunn.

#LOKI. #anyway

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𝐀 𝐓𝐀𝐍𝐆𝐋𝐄𝐃 𝐖𝐄𝐁 — tales of Crow, in service to the Spider. 

“You’ve explained how it’s supposed to work, and I’ve explained that I don’t care.”

“Either we both get new names, or neither of us do.”

“You said I had a name before as well, but you won’t tell me what it was.”

“Purely as a hypothetical exercise, what would you name me?”

“You are… a light in the darkness.”

“You look like the underside of a Dreg’s boot.”

“I won’t have someone in my care without a proper name.” 

“I appreciate your handiwork! You just saved me a lot of trouble.”

“You don’t have to talk when you can shoot like that.”

“Since you kept this cargo out of the hands of the enemy, I’d say you’re entitled to a cut.”

“How has our friend been performing in the field?”

“And there haven’t been any indiscretions?”

“Do you have something to tell me?”

“Then he’s lying. Even to you.”

“I gave you rules for a reason.”

“Following rules is counter to my nature.”

“Someday you’ll realize who you were doesn’t matter. What’s important is who you are.”

“You have faced more than your share of cruelty. You’ve learned what it is to truly suffer.”

“I’m not afraid of being hurt anymore.”

“If you want me to stay, you’ll have to offer me more than threats.” 

“I will call for you again if I need you.”

“Maybe there’s some wisdom in your defiance.”

“I have an idea to protect you.”

“I—I think I’ll be fine.”

“I put you in this position. I let this happen.”

“You had no choice. We can’t change the past. We can only look to the future.”

“My future is with you. You’re all I have. The only person who… the only person who cares about me.”

“You won’t ever know who cares about you until you meet them.”

“I won’t abandon you. You would never do that to me.”

“I’ll never leave you.”

#MEMES. #let me hoard—specify muse!

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#CASTIEL.

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:(

#CASTIEL. #correct! next question

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lordship among pirates is either passed down or inherited by murder of the previous pirate lord. in jack's case, lordship over the caribbean sea was passed down to him by his long-time lover, esmeralda. she physically gave him the silver piece of eight that jack used to wear as a trinket laboriously woven into one of his braids, and never took it off until the voting ceremony in at world's end—after that the previous pieces of eight are destroyed to free calypso, but the structure of pirate lordship remains, the only difference being that there's a king at the top now, that being elizabeth, who must still abide the code but can summon the pirate lords to war if the need arises

in jack's fantasy verses i tend to keep this particular structure where i can. being a pirate lord who has claimed a certain territory essentially implies that jack is widely known, influential over the brethren court despite being a bit of a pariah in his specific case, and worth an immensely high bounty reward should he be captured alive or dead

#JACK. #he gets arrested from time to time it keeps him humble

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changing halsin's main verse from baldur's gate to tolkien's legendarium :) nandorin elf born in ossiriand in the first age let's go

#HALSIN. #bg3 verse remains available but i will default to tolkien!

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“Bitter Snow,” by Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

#LOKI.

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Leonard Cohen, from The Complete Poems

#CASTIEL.