colorblind pride flag just dropped

do yall think alden's parents were at alvar's tribunal

or edaline and juline's parents at sophie and dex's planting, losing two more grandchildren

gisela's parents finding out what she's done, how she's hidden her ability since childhood all to be underestimated, and wondering where they went wrong

cassius's parents refusing to even speak to him once he's removed from his title of emissary. and when word gets out that keefe made it to exillium, his fathers only words to him in decades are, "he's still more of a Sencen than you."

brant's mother and father falling further into their guilt, wondering how they missed something so important. they missed everything, and people died for it. why didnt he just tell them? maybe they could have helped. maybe they could have saved him...

elwin's parents as he calls home and tells them of this talented, brave girl he just can't stop bringing back to life, and they worry about how much of a toll it takes on him to see so much violence, to lose these children over and over

grady's parents when the council put the ability restrictor on sophie, and they're suddenly taken back to a hundred years ago, watching their son manifest and being told, "he's too powerful."

Drew this a while ago, so as the universe works, I don’t like it as much but felt obligated to post it anyway—because chapter 42 !!!

Despite being a familiar, Monty is in fact just a bird. He's smarter, has a longer memory, and doesn't break under the reality of having been human, in love, died, and then become a bird again.

He remembers everything about being human, but the feelings are muted, he still likes Edwin, but only in the capacity of how a bird can like a human.

He still slightly resents Charles, but that's also been shifted into the way he would feel about another bird, a romantic rival winning the mating game. He wouldn't share his food with him, but he wouldn't peck his eyes out either.

Still, he knows he betrayed them, and moving one bag to enable their escape doesn't mean much. Especially not when Edwin got tortured, and Niko died. So he's not surprised when they leave him in the house with no way out. In fact, he'd argue that he deserves it.

A slow end of starvation, or dehydration, whichever comes first, seems fitting.

But then, a day and a half later, not even long enough for him to begin to feel thirst after he drank all his water, Charles phases through the front door and finds him where he's perched in the kitchen, carefully avoiding looking into the room where Esther's device, and the bloodstain on the floor still remains.

He doesn't say anything at first, and Monty begins to think that he, a bird, is hallucinating when the one corner of Charles mouth quirks slightly. Not a smile or a frown, just the smallest movement as if he's considering.

"You know, I think we all just kind of forgot you existed when everything went down."

It would hurt if Monty didn't actually think they left him on purpose. Being forgotten is somehow less bad in his mind, you don't circle back for lost flock when a predator strikes until after the danger is over, and you've counted how many are left, after all.

"Still, I'm sorry it took me so long to get here, you did help me out in the end, even if you are on the shitlist for lying and getting Edwin hurt in the first place." 'And Niko' but Charles doesn't seem like he's able to say her name. It's too soon.

Monty just caws softly at him. 'Sorry' doesn't really cover it, but the sentiment still remains.

"Ah well, I'm here to just you know, open a window or something. Can't have you dying in here as well. Not if I can help it anyway."

It's sweet, and Monty considers him as he walks through the kitchen to force the window open, Charles is.. sweet.

If Monty were to lose to a romantic rival such as Charles as a bird or a human, he thinks maybe it's not so bad. At least he knows that Charles mate will be provided for and taken care of, as well as the rest of the flock.

He caws at him again to tell him so, momentarily forgetting that the language barrier is quite big between human and bird.

Then again, Esther always understood him, but maybe that's the witch-familiar bond in place. At least he thinks so until Charles turns around, with a wide smile on his face.

"Cheers! I'll take good care of Edwin, don't worry."

'Oh! Good. Well then, good bye Charles, I have other birds to harass. And maybe a cat or two.'

Charles' laughter follows him as he takes flight out the window, and the 'Everyone likes me eventually' echoes somewhere in the back of his mind.

Seems he was right about that.

kell maresh fanart sucks bc he always looks so fierce as if the man isnt described w a permanent crease in his brow for 4 books. he is the most concerned, bothered, worried man to walk four londons, he has never known a moment of peace, stop making him look too-cool-for-school when he is always on the verge of martyrdom or a panic attack or both!

I think Edwin loves Charles' optimism. I think for all he feels a little rejected when Charles says he hates being dead, Charles' zest for life and love for the world grounds Edwin in a way he wouldn't be able to ground himself. He made it out of hell and into a world that was completely unfamiliar, and it would have been so easy for him to close it off completely, but instead he was reintroduced to it by someone with a genuine love and passion for life, someone who was excited about the music scene and passionate about food and wanted to show him what he'd missed.

sticker and kiss version ⭐️🗝 i miss them sm

i’m dating an astrophysicist

We make fun of America’s “freedom units” but this is literally how nonsensical feets and pounds are

One kilogram is the weight of one liter of water. One liter is one cubic decimeter. One decimeter is exactly one hundred millionth part of the distance from the North Pole to the Equator across the surface of the Earth on the 0th longitude because that’s what they measured to decide what a meter is. What the fuck is a foot

twelve inches

Math icon right here👆👆👆

tyty!

I WILL bring this up again. You will give yourself a huge leg-up by learning basic skills. Look up free YouTube tutorials, see if your library has training classes, take a computer literacy class if you can fit it into your class schedule.

You will do so much better at a job if you can use just the basic functions of Excel, Word, and Outlook. Interested in coding? Learn it! Everyone telling you that AI is going to get rid of the need to know how to do HTML is a damn liar. Take a step back to figure out what you don't know, pick the first thing on the list, and go learn it. It will be worth it!

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I bet Aru continuously tries to seduce Aiden with tacky pick-up lines even though they’re already dating

[Texting]

Aiden: Dude

Aru: I’m busy rn

Aru: I just ate glass by accident

Aiden: You what

Aru: Please leave me alone

Aru: I ate glass

If Aru isn’t bi then what was going on in that Madame B scene

This is a minor thing but it is very annoying to me when people replace every instance of "th" with þ, while ignoring the existence of ð. Like those indicate very different sounds I'm sorry you are not really saying "þat, þis, þose" unless you are hosing me down with saliva

Now, writing like ðis might be confusing, but at ðe very least ðis actually follows what English sounds like. I only ask for consistency. "ðis þeremin." "ðat þursday." "ðis is ðe þanks I get?"

@violetnull’s tags are correct. While it’s entirely possible that thorn & eth originally indicated voiceless & voiced, English stopped maintaining that distinction so far back that they’re already used interchangeably in our earliest surviving texts.

That said, yes, if we brought both letters back, that’s exactly how we should use them.

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