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I'm ezra von firemblem/orestes attica von ffxiv. Sometimes I write things. Find me at thecaryatid on AO3.

one of the great joys of writing is to suddenly happen upon an amazing epic plot twist that is so perfectly foreshadowed by everything you wrote before that no one will ever suspect that it came as much of a surprise to you as to them

To boil my last long-ass post down to its bare essentials:

Illario Dellamorte in a slutty Lords of Fortune outfit, vest open, tits out

Illario Dellamorte dripping in gold

Illario Dellamorte with a scruff of beard and a ponytail

Illario Dellamorte as a pirate

Let that boy put the “ho” in “yo ho ho.”

I had to do it.

Yes! See? This is the vision!

Isabela would embrace this man!

“You lied to and betrayed the people closest to you? Who hasn’t?”

She tells him he did a good job on a raid, and his eyes get wide like an abandoned puppy getting pets.

Turn that crow into a seagull!

I love epistolary fic. Love reading it, love writing it

But it's so intimidating not having description and internal narration to lean on. The amount of context you have to pack into letters without getting too heavy handed with it is such a difficult line to walk

Someday I gotta do one for real

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you ever see a character and are just like “oh, I cannot wait for them to finally have a breakdown.”

like they take everything that’s thrown at them more or less but you know there’s a breaking point. Where Is It. I Must Know.

I LIVE FOR THIS

my toxic trait is being fervently convinced that if i ever came across a dragon irl we would make eye contact and understand each other at a primal level of transcendental trust instead of charring me into a crispy onion

Cory Booker has been talking in the senate for over 20 hours now

He’s not filibustering. He’s protesting the current administration.

For those of you from outside the US or those of you who didn’t pay attention in government class, in the US senate there’s really no limit to the amount of time a senator can speak. So sometimes if they don’t want a bill to pass they just. Don’t stop talking. To hopefully get past the deadline to vote on a bill. This is called filibustering.

Senator Cory Booker isn’t doing that. He’s disrupting “the normal business of the United States Senate for as long as I am physically able”. Just in protest. This doesn’t usually happen.

He’s less than 20 minutes away from breaking the record of the longest speech given on the senate floor

Cory Booker has officially broken Strom Thurmond’s record for longest speech on the senate floor and he’s still going

For those of you wondering what he’s been talking about this whole time, his staff wrote down a bunch of stuff for him to read like stories from people across the political spectrum opposed to what the administration is doing. He’s also been telling personal anecdotes about meeting important civil rights leaders and other democratic senators have been pausing him for “questions” but the questions have been as long as a small speech and have both served the purpose of giving him a second to sit down and updating him on the news that he’s been missing while he’s been talking.

He has yielded the floor at 25 hrs and 4 mins. His eyes are so wide they look like they’re going to bug out of his skull so I don’t blame him for stopping. He said to go out and get in some good trouble.

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