Thinking About Ianthe's Arm:

Thinking about Ianthe's arm:

"He says it’s hideous and he’ll gild it for me—” (“Tacky,” you said.)"

Gold isn't something you can manipulate with necromantic ability. But here's Augustine casually offering to gild the bones of an entire skeleton arm, which sounds like it would be quite laborious manually.

But of course, what is the Mithraeum filled with?

Things like this:

"a skeletal arm wrapped in gold foil, amethysts studded like so many eyes between the knucklebones"

and this:

"gilded and bejewelled skeletons of Third and Seventh heroes dressed in gold and green robes of necromantic office, with amethysts and topazes and emeralds for eyes"

You have to assume that the Lyctors in general, or Augustine in particular, have been DIYing the bejeweled House hero relics for the last myriad, so adding some gold to an arm that's attached to someone isn't all that much of a stretch.

This is also riffing on an actual thing in Catholicism, so if you're trying to imagine the Mithraeum, I promise you that you are not visualising something as weird and tacky as reality...

Vultures are holy creatures.

Tending the dead.

Bowing low.

Bared head.

Whispers to cold flesh,

“Your old name is not your king.

I rename you ‘Everything.’”

I actually don't think I would be at all surprised if Carly Rae Jepsen called me. Like there's no reason that can't happen, and just because it won't doesn't mean that it would be weird if it did.

I know you've been reblogging posts about it, but what's your actual stance on the walrus/fairy at door thing?

I don't think it's fair to call either one "more surprising" than the other. they'd be surprising events for completely separate reasons and it doesn't make sense to directly compare them

Very sad that now that Harrow has been eliminated we'll never have Harrow vs Nona

Adoption poll round 1 match 24

Nona (The Locked Tomb)

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist)

Propaganda under the cut

Nona (The Locked Tomb) Propaganda

She is 19 years old but also 4.5 billion years old and also 6 months old. She has escaped from barbie jail on Pluto (long story) and has amnesia. She loves all dogs, but especially loves Noodle who has six legs and is king of dogs in secret. She likes eating sand, marker lids and luscious green vegetation and she does NOT like scrambled eggs because she has sensory issues and they are gross. She is not allowed to eat sand, marker lids or luscious green vegetation and she HAS to finish her scrambled eggs because she needs the protein. She cannot read but she is fluent in every single language that exists including body language. She is part of a gang with her friends from school. Her friends are called Hot Sauce, Born in the Morning, beautiful Ruby, honesty and Kevin. She thinks flowers are sexy and likes having agony aunt columns read to her. She’s only had two tantrums in her life and she can’t even remember them so you can’t hold that against her. Just about everyone who meets her wants to adopt her, and she was adopted by three people in two bodies but we can adopt her too because she has plenty of love to go round and honestly she kinda needs the supervision. Or she’ll eat sand.

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Nona is getting ready to celebrate her birthday and she wants to invite every dog she's seen in the city. She knows every language. She likes to swim and touch the jellyfish that nobody else can touch because they kill you. She's in a gang with some of the other kids at school. Her family's not sure who she is. The rebellion wants to use her. So does the empire. She's got a crush on one of the rebels. She kisses the emperor's daughter. She's dying. All she wants is a birthday present. Nona loves you.

Pollrunner note: whoever wrote these propaganda deserves a medal 🏅 🏅

Edward Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) Propaganda

Feral child left to take care of himself and his brother at a young age. Cannot stop uncovering government corruption

What if I don't day drink

"I use chatGPT to assist in writing" is the type of shit you say when you haven't discovered the ancient and time honored writing trick of day drinking with your friends and spitballing.

I think Finland might be a bit silly.

another finnish transfem here; marraskuu basically means mortal (omen) moon (from the same indo-european root as mortal/mori even) sadly finnish name laws prevented me from legally changin mine to marras (was tentatively on the list) as callin oneself an omen of death is apparently against social cohesion or some shit (go figure)

I’m ILLEGAL IN FINLAND?!