Rise Up, Oh Heart, For There is Another Battle to Win

Anonymous asked: "Jake, I just told you I didn't want to know." An iconic line tbh????? I just snorted. Amazing.

Oh damn

Anyway this is a fucking Delight, I’m grinning so hard my cheeks hurt, I’m so thrilled with this.

necer0s asked: You mentioned Castlevania, so: Trevor Belmont for the headcanon meme?

Buddy you have answered the call and here are some headcanons about this disaster for this headcanon meme.  Disclaimer that I know NOTHING about the games and this is 100% based on the show.  Also, welcome to Latin Hour.

A: what I think realistically

Here are a set of three related headcanons that are my ride-or-die Opinions about this show.

First of all, the Belmont family was quite sizable—Belmont family proper, I’m sure there are any number of illegitimate children and/or other branches scattered around Europe.  They were close, most of the family living on the hereditary estate with the exception of the transient full-time hunters, but tough love was very much the word of the day.  It had to be, given their family duty and the sheer death rate.  Technically the Belmont family motto is Numquam Retro, arched over the ancient family crest. But for as long as Trevor can remember, the real family motto has been this: no matter how good a Belmont is, there is always something just that little bit better.  Aut cum scuto aut in scuto, reads the legend over the family mausoleum, either with shield or on shield, and it is much truer.  Belmonts come home victorious, or they don’t come home.

Second of all, Trevor was the crowning jewel of the Belmont family—a talented warrior from a young age, well-versed in the bestiary, and devoted, so devoted, to the ideal.  No one becomes as bitterly disillusioned as Trevor without having a long, long fall to get there.

Third of all, the Belmont family took their excommunication as they had taken every attempt to stop them from serving their duty: with stoic, stubborn disregard. They received the Bull informing them of their banishment and replied with a politely immovable “thank you but we’re rather too busy to be excommunicated right now.”  The Catholic Church responded as was highly typical in the 1400’s.

Trevor was returning from an utterly mundane errand into town, seeking some small gift for his baby sister’s first kill, when he saw the smoke start to climb. He reached the estate just in time to watch the fire bring the roof down and cut the screaming short.

B: what I think is fucking hilarious

For the first little while of their journey, Sypha and Alucard are relatively sure that their third member is the muscle, the street-smarts, to their formal education.

Then Trevor busts out some fluent Latin to translate a book and adds a snide insult for good measure, o salvator somnelente mi.

They are both dumbfounded, and Trevor rolls his eyes at them.

“The Belmonts weren’t just a bunch of country drunks,” he points out, and tosses the book carelessly at Alucard.  “We were scholars too.  Carry that, would you?”

C: what is heart-crushing and awful but fun to inflict on friends

The three of them have been on the move, hunting for Dracula’s castle, for a full month and a half when Alucard finds Trevor sitting on watch outside the ransacked farmhouse they’ve claimed as shelter from the weather.  Normally, even if he’s drinking or on watch or distracted, Alucard struggles to get the drop on Trevor, which is far more of a statement about Belmont House’s skill than Alucard suspects even Trevor himself realizes. This time, Trevor jolts, even though Alucard takes care to make noise so as not to alarm Sypha.

“Belmont?” Alucard asks, crouching down to be on eye level with him.  “Are you all right?”

Trevor doesn’t respond—in all honesty, seems to barely hear the question.  “I had a baby sister,” Trevor says distantly.  “Older twins, too, but my baby sister—she just killed her first werewolf about a year and a week ago.  I got back just in time for the celebration.”

Alucard sits down beside him, cautious.  “That is quite an achievement.  How old was she?”

“Fourteen.”  Trevor blinks, takes a deep breath and lets it out, studies the moon with uncommon concentration.  “She burned, a year ago, with my brother, and my elder sister, and my parents, my cousins…”

“Ah,” Alucard says quietly, and does the math.  “Your family must have been quite large.”

“Forty of us,” Trevor confirms.  “And every single one of them died in that fire.”  

Alucard nods, and tucks his knees up so that he can wrap his arms around them, and they sit there in the quiet for a while.  If there’s a trace of moisture beading on Trevor’s lashes, neither of them mention it.

“I cannot imagine what it feels like,” Alucard says at last, barely a whisper, “to lose so many loved ones to the fire.”

“No,” Trevor confirms.  “But you have a better idea than most.”

D:  what would never work with canon but the canon is shit so I believe it anyway

There’s not really enough canon to make a judgement one way or another, but.

I really fiercely want the more intelligent demons—it’s clear that some, if not all, of the Night Horde are human-level intelligent—to start to…remember. Once upon a time the House of Belmont was the most feared force in Hell, the levee that held back the tide of the supernatural from washing over the majority of the populace.  Now the levee has been broken (burned) and the tidal wave is rushing in and the demons are running free—

And some of them, meeting a stubborn-jawed man with alcohol on his lips and the ancient crest on his chest, think twice.

Thinking twice is, more often than not, the last thing they do on this plane of existence, before the silver of Alucard’s sword or Sypha’s power strikes them down, or before the last son of the House of Belmont lashes out with whip and blade and holy water.

Those that escape spread the word: despite the Church’s best efforts, there is still a Belmont abroad in the land, and he has allies, and he is doing his family proud.

Strange, perhaps, that the last Belmont would be flattered by the rumors of a demon horde.

ladysugarquill asked: Hi! I'm following your Animorphs reread and I just wanted to add to your pain by mentioning that the two lines Tom says in the pool are the last time he will talk to Jake of his own free will IN THE ENTIRE SERIES. You're welcome <3

You.

I like you.

Also, I raise you the fact that Jake does eventually hear Tom–the real Tom–one more time. In Temrash 114’s memories of Tom begging for Jake to be spared.

Anonymous asked: Brennth 13

…I 274% did not expect anyone to actually do this ask meme.

But yes!  Let’s do the thing!

13.  Which of the 7 Deadly Sins best describes them?

It’s a strong tossup between Wrath and Greed tbh.  

Wrath because…Brenneth is angry and she has been for eighteen years, since Crispin showed up in her forge with blood on his hands and an offer to come with him.  Brenneth is angry A Lot, there are days where she wakes up and the taste of fury is already on her tongue, and when they turn her loose to go back to battle, she is so, so grateful.  Her chest burns hotter every moment, and the magic of the white fire thrives off her anger.

Greed because Brenneth wants her world and her home and her smithy and her people and her city and her Crispin and her sword.  Brenneth looks at the world as being ‘mine’ and ‘not mine’ and all of Alleirat is hers and she spends fourteen years on Earth where her first thought of every morning and her last thought of every night is a greedy craving to stand in the Alleirai sun and look over the Talein Mountains and see the twin moons rise.  She wants to go home to Alleirat and she wants Crispin to be there with her, free and clear, and she couldn’t give less of a damn about the word ‘impossible.’  Fire is a greedy master.

She would not have called herself particularly wrathful nor particularly avaricious, back before the White Wolf.  She thinks of that girl as very naive.

Anonymous asked: legolas & gimli!!! bc i saw you mention them in your faramir & eowyn answer and got v excited but then you didn't get TOO sidetracked lmao

vardasvapors:

1. I love the dynamic, of like, light-hearted kinda scatterbrained eccentric and slightly goofy elf ranger who verbally shitposts and sounds like a loon whenever he opens his mouth but occasionally says deep and genuine things too, plus the super-serious well-spoken soulful proud dwarf lord who also talks weird but in like, the opposite way, with these heartfelt open feelings couched in kind of solemnity and manners, but more and more frequently over the book babbles and says spontaneous stuff, and how they fit together so well in a dynamic that is really un-cliched on the personal level – this weird melding of senses of humor and viewpoints on the other characters and events around them, which are pretty different but don’t oppose one another as much as overlap and join together to create a single bigger, even more fun outside viewpoint, they’re such a good pseudo greek chorus-y thing

2. I think this pairing is the main reason I kinda like the LACE ‘elves have no desire to have sex with anyone unless they fall in love and sex equals getting married for them’ thing tbh. I love the symmetry with the ‘dwarves only ever fall in love once and never marry otherwise but nothing is said about extramarital sex for them’ thing, Meaning it’s like, some weird special experience on both sides but in different ways. I usually don’t care for this trope in most shippy fic, but I like it in interspecies and I really like it for them.

3. Aaggghhhh the getting-together process! Most of all, I think about the fact that by all accounts, and as implied by certain lines in Fellowship, the dwarves of Erebor don’t really get elves and the elves of Mirkwood don’t really get dwarves, and there’s probably a lot of just, natural assumptions that are totally wrong and which they never thought to examine. It could even be that the fire-forged-ness of their bond might actually interfere with some of this understanding of each other, if they moved into this state of complete attachment and acceptance of each other while in this upside-down fugue state of pre-apocalypse where they didn’t really have…that much time to talk, after their period of downtime in Lothlorien where I assume the first stage of their friendship was formed. Like, when they emerge from emergency-mode after the destruction of the Ring, they’ve already plummeted straight into “oh I know he’s a weird alien and I love him, oh no wait it’s that kind of love, okay lol this definitely won’t work welp I’m screwed I guess???” without considering that no maybe he’s not that much of an alien, and yes you can fuck him without it being a disaster.

4. OBVIOUSLY the whole immortal/mortal thing, especially highlighted since they live in pretty close contact and temporally in parallel with Aragorn and Arwen, whose mortal/immortal problem is totally different. Also the sea-longing! How, and when, was it decided that Legolas would stay in ME that long, or that he would take Gimli with him to Valinor? So many opportunities! In some ways, their time in ME after the war is a grace period, a finite stage of overlap, a kind of once-in-an-age, improbable, forgotten, enchanted sort of time, where the dwarves are building for the future but the elves are just pretty much just lingering and housekeeping for the humans on their way out, and it would feel like there is a sort of pressure to make something of this time, both their own separate lives and whatever their relationship is like.

5. lmao I think the main reason I imagined Legolas as blond was either because Thranduil had golden hair in the Hobbit book or because something something weird associations with personality types something (because I had no idea about any of the movie castings at the time I read the books). BUT ALSO: “I say to you, Gimli son of Glóin, that your hands shall flow with gold, and yet over you gold shall have no dominion” :)

6. I am TRASH. I will read SO MUCH SILLINESS with them. But here are just three HQ recs:

On the Cold Hillside by marycrawford

An Ounce of Perception by stateofintegrity

They Say of the Elves by brancher

skymurdock asked: Star Wars or Hamilton, 1 2 3.

STAR WARS IT IS

For this thing

1. Name your politically correct ship that no one ever questions.

I really genuinely like Han/Leia because I am a sucker for the “I just really enjoy shouting at this person and get really furious when they risk their life suRELY THIS DOES NOT MEAN FEELINGS” thing and I feel like that’s…all of Hoth.  The whole time.  All of it.  

Also, listen.  I will die on the hill of The Damerons as a totally adoring, poly unit of heroes in which Rey sleeps with her back to the wall and her head on Finn’s chest and her fingers tangled with Poe’s, who gently traces the line of the callous on her thumb in his sleep, and Finn lies there and stares at the ceiling and wonders how the FUCK he got this lucky.  (Because you deserve it, baby, you fucking deserve it.)

2. Now name your trash ship.

…I mean…Anakin is a trash can, so does Anakin/Padme qualify, or does Padme’s general quality everything lift them from the dumpster fire?

Although for real trash, you can’t do better than Rey/Phasma having really bitter angry hate sex.  Before Rey figures herself out and marries her two husbands, of course.

3. And your really trashy I’m-going-to-Hell ship.

…do I have one of these?  I don’t think I have–

oh no, yes I do, oh god I didn’t realize what the ship was for the fic but it was SO GOOD and I just.

Sith!Qui-Gon Jinn/Obi-Wan was not a ship I saw coming but F U C K.

It’s a really good fic okay, it sold me hardcore.  It’s this series by @poplitealqueen.  I should reread it because it’s been updated.  I’ll go sit in a hole now.

(I just really like Sith Qui-Gon and also Darth Venge, who I don’t think shows up in this one but is a big player in Re-Entry, which is like. Yeah.)

Anonymous asked: *sends encouraging music* pls dont die

Anonymous said:

drink water and dont die pls

Anonymous said:

hello i hope you’re eating and drinking and sleeping in all the required amounts. dont die.

Anonymous said:

TAKE CARE OF YOURSELF MAKE SURE YOU EAT HAVE YOU EATEN GO EAT SOMETHING (DRINK WATER) (BE SAFE AND DONT DIE) YOU CAN DO IT

Anonymous said:

DO THE WORK YOU CAN DO IT *CHEERS YOU ON AGGRESSIVELY, BUT IN A GENTLE FASHION* (THERE IS NO NEED TO REPLY TO THIS)

I don’t know if these were all the same person checking in once a week or what but y’all have really been keeping my going through the last push on my thesis and I’m going to go through my inbox and actually clear out all of these messages because they’re sweet as hell.

out-there-on-the-maroon:

dimir-charmer:

the thing I love most about Kirk’s string of ex lovers across the galaxy is that every time he runs into one he’s like 

“!!!!! How are you!! I missed you so much!! How’s your career?? Successful?? I’m so happy for you!! Haha, remember that time we almost got married!! But both of our careers were in the way?? That hasn’t changed but I’m still kinda in love with you and I’m happy you’re doing well!!! Goodbye forever again it’s a shame we never got married but I understand!!”

Bring back this kind of male hero please and thank you.

(via ifeelbetterer)