Nepenthe-of-the-nutcracker - Nutcracker

“One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.”

"I love you like all-fire"

a series of incorrect quotes based on personal interactions:

tennyson: don’t listen to anything this man says. half of what comes out of his mouth is lies!

halt: no

halt: more than half, i’d say

duncan: when halt began teaching crowley hibernian, i was convinced the two of them would use it to talk about me behind my back

*muffled hibernian bickering in the background*

duncan: as it turns out, they mostly use it to antagonize each other without my interference

halt: do we have to go to this funeral? i don’t even know this man!

pauline: he’s dead, if that helps, so you aren’t likely to meet him!

halt: it doesn’t help

will’s fortune cookie: your persistance will soon pay off

will:

will: I WANT A DOG I WANT A DOG I WANT A DOG I WANT A DOG I

crowley: i don’t see how anyone can drink their coffee with honey. it’s disgraceful

halt, behind him, pouring a copious amount of honey into his coffee: oh, yes — truly unthinkable

crowley: *writes “project” on a chalkboard* alright you motley lot, what should we name this project?

berrigan: operation oakleaf

farell: project coffee-beans

halt: mission ‘see-that-morgarath-never-shows-his—sorry-backside-outside-of-gorlan-again’

crowley:

crowley: *underlines “project”* we’ll think on it

will: *carefully places the final card on top of his card tower and sits back proudly*

pre-character development horace: *turns on fan*

Not you giving ME ideas shsjbs. You’re actually making me reconsider when to place it. Ahhhh so many ways this could go. I love the idea of Will meeting Caitlyn and telling Halt 😭😭 and yes about Pritchard!! I can also imagine that Will would almost immediately tell Pritchard that he’s from the far future (it’s Will. He would tell SOMEONE there) and telling him all about how Halt and Crowley are doing and Pritchard being so proud!! And yeah, Will would absolutely ask Pritchard to take him on as an honorary apprentice lolll

I’m also still debating on how Will goes to the past. Through a dream? An object? ??? Even more possibilities lol. Think I might lay out at least three different routes this could go and decide from there. One of my original ideas was of Will wishing his dad hadn’t died (because we all know who Daniel died protecting…) Like imagine Will thinks he’s saving his dad only to realize he’s condemning Halt 😬 but that’s the least wholesome route so we’ll see hahah. At this rate I’ll write all three. I’m growing attached to the crack treated seriously approach

Seriously tempted to write a time-travel fic about Will meeting teenage Crown Prince Halt and royally screwing things up in the process. Someone slap me with a brick.

— Danez Smith, from "summer, somewhere" (via lunamonchtuna)

Yes.

Weird thought, but do you think Halt ever thought about the fact that Lord Orman’s situation was similar to his own? Being the unlikable, aloof one, and having to contend with the fact that people preferred your much more charismatic relative, regardless of their true nature?

Just a thought.

Lidia Yuknavitch, from Reading the Waves: A Memoir published in 2025

Golden child, Lion boy; Tell me what it's like to conquer. Fearless child, Broken boy; Tell me what it's like to burn.

—oh darling, even Rome fell // p.s.

I think that after several years, the Rampion Crew grow so used to Cinder being cyborg that they sort of forget about it entirely, resulting in interactions such as this:

*Cinder applying sunscreen to her right leg at the beach* Thorne: Wow, you're brave. Cinder: Huh? Thorne: Well, if you only wanna put sunscreen on one leg and end up looking like a two-toned popsicle, I won't stop you. Cinder: *Stares at him* Thorne: *Stares back* Cinder: ... Thorne: What?

"There will come a ruler, who's brow is laid in thorn,"