draconian-rex:

stoneandbloodandwater:

forthegothicheroine:

youkoofthelovespot:

jali-jali:

charmory:

this is the most romantic thing i’ve seen all day

No shit. That tom cat was like:

“This thorn invested wall means nothing.”

“I will gladly walk on it a thousand times over, if that means I could be with you, my lady.”

and the lady cat was all:

“My brave darling.”

OOOPS MY HAND SLIPPED!!

Suddenly my muse insisted me to draw the personification version of the last pic, and who am I to reject inspiration when it comes so willingly to me? At least this will help with the artblock issue I currently have to deal with.

Russian imperial era inspired because hot damn.

Note: I tried google reverse image (and other reverse image search engines) those photos and came up with nothing. I wish I knew the original photographer because I want to love hug him/her so hard for capturing such inspiring moments.

OMG that’s the cutest thing ever and the best courtly love ah so brilliant.

Few romantic heroes could do better.

I don’t post cats often but that illustration.

When cats have a better love life than you

When Voldemort had Cedric Diggory killed, he said this: kill the spare.

Hannah heard it whispered in the hallways, too, right behind ‘sheep’ and ‘not smart not brave not cunning’ and simply ‘Puff’. Potions with Snape was always a treat. He hated Harry Potter, but the black and yellow only earned his disdain. But even Flitwick sometimes sighed when Justin Finch-Fletchey just couldn’t quite figure out a charm.

And Hannah, in a quiet, accustomed, burning way, fumed. We are not spare parts.

You think we’re your cast offs. You think we’re the kids no other House wanted to take.

Well, here’s a clue for you, suckers. This is a story about choice. The wand chooses the wizard but the wizard chooses the House. When that Hat goes on your head, it doesn’t forbid you things, it offers them to you.

We are not your castoffs. We’re just the kids who didn’t choose you.

http://archiveofourown.org/works/2089398, ‘naive: in defense of hannah abbott’ by dirgewithoutmusic, aka ink-splotch
(via laurelsing-abc)

FT: Zervis

kyogre-blue:

I’m not sure I’ve ever laid this out, so I’ll just do it here.

So, taking Zervis as it was initially presented to us in Mavis’s flashback, I actually liked it. 

(My only major complaint was that it relies quite a bit on FTZ, which is a side story not everyone’s read. That’s not really good management.) 

I know the arguments against it, particularly the fact that they only met three times. But honestly? I think that’s hardly a huge mistake when you’re aiming for a short flashback. You can’t really give time to develop this deep relationship when you have a chapter or two to convey it. 

And frankly Zervis isn’t a deep relationship. It’s a connection. An important one, yes, but it’s not a relationship and it’s barely love (not romantic love at all, I’d say). It’s more desperation, clinging to the only person with you in hell. 

Which is still good for a backstory tragedy! It gives just enough feeling to color Mavis’s and Zeref’s actions at times, but not enough to overtake the more core parts of their characters and motivations. (In theory.)

It makes sense for Mavis to feel regret and some hesitation about fighting Zeref. She had so much sympathy for him, she understands what terrible pressure he was under because of the curse, for so long. She wants to help him… but she’s got far bigger priorities, like her guild. She’s made her statement, after GMG. She’s going to fight him if he makes himself the enemy of the world and humanity. 

It also makes sense for Zeref to feel regret about sacrificing Mavis. She showed him kindness and he felt probably his only genuine emotion in centuries toward her. But he’s also got bigger priorities – self destruction and genocide. That spark just isn’t enough to outweigh centuries of suffering and despair. 

Zervis is, to me, about “if only” and “what could have been.” It’s about an opportunity that was snatched away before it ever even materialized. 

The problem I have is that some fans and sometimes Mashima as well try to bill it as this deep, emotional relationship, and it’s not. It’s just not. Stuff like Mavis giving Zeref begging, desperate looks while Eileen extracts Fairy Heart, Zeref’s regret being so strong that his subordinates need to scold him for it, the two of them having a child (??), them being presented as this pure love story in omakes (Stone Age, various Twitter drawings)… 

I always feel really weird and annoyed about this kind of stuff. Part of it is probably the fandom pushing Zervis as a pure love story and overemphasizing every “zervis” moment. Part of it is probably how much Zeref and Mavis’s characters have gotten derailed in general. 

But this pairing was honestly better off before it got more detail added. 

kyogre-blue:

reinariel said: How about these tropes? Even Evil Has Standards, Love Cannot Overcome & You Are Worth Hell

Even Evil Has Standards

  • how likely I am to write it
    • ALWAYS well, I mean, I think it’s a trope that should be almost perpetually in use in some way. Even villains that don’t have (moral) standards should have limitations on their behavior. Otherwise the villain is just an asspull plot device to make anything you want happen. This trope is a key aspect of making the villain an actual character that readers wants to see more of (in my opinion). 
  • what character(s) or pairing I’d most likely write it for
    • Ultear obviously has several versions of this in canon. It’s kind of a conflict with her because she believes all her actions will ultimately be erased, so there’s no need to hold back, but she ultimately does a lot of “pet the dog” stuff like saving Meldy and restoring the Galuna village. I think it would have made Hades a more interesting character if he’d been given more like this, but he’s not really explored in canon. (Laxus hilarious does this subconsciously and it’s why Fairy Law doesn’t work for him. There’s also some speculation that Erza breaking out after half an hour, half the initial time of Evergreen’s spell, is an indication that the spell itself was always just a temporary binding, not actually dangerous.)

Love Cannot Overcome

  • how likely I am to write it
    • I didn’t even know this was a trope? Anyway, the answer is never. This is, basically, a tragedy trope. Maybe you’d call it “realistic” but it’s also wildly unsatisfying and a great way of generating hate against the girl. Because, let’s be real, it’s gonna a female love interest who begs out. Which then links this to a trope I absolutely can’t stand – the helpless “normal” girl who has to be protected for her own good by her male love interest and can’t do anything except get kidnapped and cry. Her “strength” is of course her “kindness” blah blah blah I hate that shit
  • what character(s) or pairing I’d most likely write it for
    • In FT, this is a bit harder to do because everyone is wizards in the same profession. I suppose it would work for Nalu re: the END aspect or for Jerza re: all the atonement stuff. At some point, Erza’s got to get tired and wash her hands of all this, I suppose?

You Are Worth Hell 

  • how likely I am to write it
    • Another trope I had to go look up, haha. I like it… but it’s a tradegy or bittersweet trope, so I’m unlikely to actually do it. My inclination is that the sentiment in great, but the two of them should find a way to escape hell together – or alternatively realize that hell isn’t actually bad. 
  • what character(s) or pairing I’d most likely write it for
    • Zervis, I suppose? Their canon situation isn’t quite this, but if they had an actual real romance where they met more than three times in passing, I can easily see it going this way. I also have a weakspot for GrayTear or Jerza where they decide to go on the redemption quest together (though hopefully with the hidden reason of convincing the idiot to actually make efforts to redeem themselves in a permanent way).