Julius Caesar wore jorts

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See, that’s what the app is perfect for.

Sounds perfect Wahhhh, I don’t wanna

antichristsplus-one asked:

offer a query? what if i wanted to offer a queery? what do you hate gay people?

I will answer your query with a query of mine own.

What if you were stealing horse tranquilizers from an English stable in late August and just as you reached for a bottle your hand brushed that of a strapping young stable boy so feeble he can scarcely carry a hay-bale and he meets your eyes and you meet his and then you hear the stable master approaching so harry out the window with a duffle bag of tranquilizers and dexamethasone towards the pastures with their grass all yellowed from high summer heat and you must creep through the brush close alongside one another with the duffle bag between you and the clinking of the bottles is too much and you fear you will be heard so you crouch in the underbrush and you hear naught but his breathing and you behold his face again and you cannot help but notice the arc of his cupid’s bow and all at once you wish it were him instead of that duffle bag of horse steroids beneath you on the grass?

(You are both men)

Pinned Post (dexamethasone is for respiratory inflammation) also you genuinely made me worry I had misspelled that for a second ajfkglkg ask
sneez
sneez

i used to talk about this a lot on twitter a few years ago but recently i’ve been thinking again about how little agency victor kain has both within the narrative and as an individual. specifically i think a lot about how his life after nina’s death is one in which he as a person plays very little role, and the fact that his duty as her husband (and as a kain) means that after she’s gone the nature of his family’s beliefs about the preservation of the soul keep him trapped by design in a grief that is necessarily all-consuming. if he wants to keep nina’s soul alive he can never progress beyond even the first stage of grief: every moment has to be dedicated to her and her memory; he has to be constantly reminded of her and the fact that she is dead. for him to move on would be for him to essentially kill her, so he can never even attempt to recover from her loss. his life has to revolve around the space where she was. in that way i see him as kind of a living shrine, a memorial whilst he’s alive and a vessel when he’s dead. his path is called the mistress! his entire life is explicitly devoted to someone who will take his body and return to life when he sacrifices himself for her! he’s working towards a utopia like the rest of his family, but who is it for? he lost his son in the pursuit of this thing which he will never get to see, and which seemingly never had a place for him at all. the kains’ utopia doesn’t even extend to their own.

all of this pains me particularly acutely because of how clear it is that victor does have interests and desires of his own, despite his implications that he is nothing more than a mouthpiece for his family. if you believe andrey, he doesn’t even want to be here: he wants to go back to the capital to finish his degree. i often see people talk about the kains as if they are one undifferentiated entity, but a lot of the quests ‘the kains’ give you are from victor, and i would argue that in most of those he is acting as an individual rather than necessarily a kain. he wants daniil to free the wrongfully imprisoned people; he acts against his family’s interests in rewarding clara for telling him about rubin. his letter to daniil on day 9 causes me agony for many reasons but in this context specifically because it doesn’t seem like he wants to die. georgiy appears pretty unfazed about being possessed by simon (although it’s georgiy so who knows) but victor, who has two children and has been one of the town’s rulers for presumably several decades, is telling a man he met just over a week ago that he is the only one to whom he can pass on anything meaningful. you could argue that he is just manipulating daniil here to persuade him to take up the kains’ cause, but i am of the opinion that he is being genuine in this case. he doesn’t want to die. he wants his family back again, but the only way they can be reunited is with his death. he wants to finish his degree. i am putting my head through walls

You. You get it. I am fascinated by the rapport between Victor and Daniil for a lot of these reasons in particular how Victor would view Daniil's research and a possible interest in it because I feel that the Kains' immortality is rooted solely in the mind and not really in the body so I think it would be interesting to delve into how Daniil's research differs from this approach and I think perhaps Victor would be rather interest and hopeful about Daniil's research because it offers a chance at 'immortality' without having to sacrifice yourself or be trapped like he is also how Daniil's definition differs because I mean in his route he repeatedly argues that immortality isn't possible and tells Georgiy that it's impossible that Simon could be immortal and later he claims that his goal is just achieving human longevity so yeah I just. I am thinking thoughts about how Daniil and Victor discussing immortality and what exactly Daniil's goals are and I know none of this is coherent BUT ALSO how I think Daniil though being kind of naive at times regarding what's possible is still pretty grounded in reality but when working with the Kains ideas could foreseably lean more into utopian ideals I need to write a fic about this soon or I'm going to die pathologic victor kain
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localwarlockunion

Pray tell, which classic Temperament are you most imbalanced toward?

Sanguine (blood, hot & wet, happiness, air, spring)

Choleric (yellow bile, hot & dry, anger, fire, summer)

Melancholic (black bile, cold & dry, sadness, earth, autumn)

Phlegmatic (phlegm, cold & wet, calm/reserved, water, winter)

localwarlockunion

*clanging a handbell in the town square*

Two days left of the Temperaments census! Two days to be counted!

sanguine but I am and forever will be an autumn girlie poll