Michael Cunningham, The Hours

Michael Cunningham, The Hours

what part of this haunted house are you? ━ the stairs

There’s something eerie about this house, something wholly unfamiliar in the familiar. You’ve always been aware of it, of everything just a little too much. You’ve seen how this house sinks its teeth into whatever passes through it because you are the passage that connects one to the other. So you know how this ends — when someone believes they can tame a predator, and now you must sit back in and watch as they become the newest prey. You have a good heart, or what is left of it, but you learned the hard way to put yourself first in a place like this. So make no mistake, when the third step from the top creaks it is not without purpose. You are a bridge, at the end of the day, the intermediate between the familiar and then unknown. A staircase goes both up and down, after all.

i will never in my whole life not be emotional about how many times cara mia shows up in the portal soundtrack. the fact its in the SOUND of the hardlight bridges is the most bonkers thing in the whole world. man. portal.

“are you seeing anyone” you mean like a hallucination??

we’re getting adaman crumbs in pokemon masters and i’m so happy i love him so much ;w;

━ Toriel, being both a boss monster and the prior Queen of the underground, has a certain aptitude to her magic very few others share, including even Asgore, though such prowess would’ve been one Asriel would’ve likely grown into even partially. Toriel has a great amount of control over her magic, but perhaps most impressively would be her control over strings of flame : with each bundle of flaming magic demanding a constantly in-check chemical reaction to which she has nigh complete control, including intricate control over each and every independent bulb in the line, that kind of concentration, delicate capability and skill is very rare to find with her sensitivity to the changes in each bulb being much stronger than even Asgore’s with the same movement.

This reaches into an unexpectedly wide range most often, as basic as lighting a hearth before entering the house or setting a rune of heated protective magic upon a loved one’s clothing or home with fire’s natural inclinations to protection and care as well as destruction. It, inherently, could be wildly enhanced with further obtainment of LV, as much magic tends to follow the suit of, but Toriel since being both locked within the underground as a whole and having self-exiled herself to the ruin lacks any kind of interest in accumulating more than she currently has, though the potential ( and capability ) doesn’t fade quite as easily.