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Ottessa Moshfegh, My Year of Rest and Relaxation

I've only messaged people on Tumblr three times: the third when I didn't have an answer for an ask (I'm still working on it), the second when I had a question to ask someone which didn't seem big enough to be ask-worthy, and the first to a very prominent Arthurian blog which wasn't strongly related to my admittedly odd and random comment about the Grail questers but was the only Arthurian blog I'd encountered at that point, since I hadn't yet figured out how Tumblr worked or that I could post things. I'm a little mortified about that last one, but all three people were nice about it. Anyway, I don't make a habit of messaging people on here because I'm worried it would seem weird and invasive. Then again, if someone messaged me, I wouldn't find it either of those things. I don't think I'm alone in this: I can vaguely remember seeing a post where someone said they would feel like they were ambushing someone in a dark alley if they messaged someone but would be happy if someone messaged them.

Anyway, all that is to say I'm not really sure how Tumblr messaging culture works, but if you want to message me, feel free to. I won't think it's weird.

Those are fabulous. I’ll add an old and terrible meta-theory and expand on it to apply it to Grimwald:

The whole series was a dream Billy Raven had or took place in his imagination as a way of coping with his terrible circumstances. Lord Grimwald symbolized Harold Bloor. He was never a real person, or, if he was, he only visited Bloor’s once.

I am a truther for a lot of things, but my biggest truth is that Dagbert is agender. Why? If Lord Grimwald had no first son, then Lysander could kill him all day every day no problem. He/They Dagbert who doesn't identify as a man or son or boy but actually just doesn't care

Starting a how-Lysander-was-able-to-kill-Grimwald theory list:

He was able to kill Lord Grimwald because curse had a time limit and expired. The Grimwalds aren’t aware of this, so they keep killing each other because they don’t know that they don’t have to. (See “The Annals of the North” on Ao3)

He was able to kill Lord Grimwald because the curse is conditional. The father and son are capable of dying in other ways, but if they aren’t dead yet, it will come to pass.

He was able to kill Lord Grimwald because he’s so powerful, the laws of nature couldn’t stop him.

He wasn’t. Lord Grimwald was trapped in the Sea Globe. (See “The Curse of the Endless” on Ao3)

I am a truther for a lot of things, but my biggest truth is that Dagbert is agender. Why? If Lord Grimwald had no first son, then Lysander could kill him all day every day no problem. He/They Dagbert who doesn't identify as a man or son or boy but actually just doesn't care

I have a few conflicting sets of headcanons—if character X is ______, then character Y is ______, based on their interactions—so I stuck with people who I only have one headcanon for who immediately came to mind. Most of the characters seem ace, probably because these are meant as children’s books, so these are for romantic orientation.

Aro Alice Angel, Inez Branko**, Claerwen

Bi Asa Pike, Olivia Vertigo, Ezekiel Bloor, Grizelda Bone*, Idith Branko**

Gay Manfred Bloor

Straight Emma Tolly

*Maybe one day I’ll write a fic set when Alice Angel is living at Charlie’s house where Alice thinks that Grizelda is calm and remote because Alice is doing her Jedi mind trick thing, Grizelda thinks that she feels dizzy and confused because she has a crush on Alice, and the answer is probably both.

**This is going off my deep desire to differentiate Idith and Inez rather than anything in the plot. They are not the same person. That’s not how identical twins work, unless one of them is the other’s magically created doppelgänger illusion or something, which isn’t impossible but seems unlikely, since they argue.

so what are your guy's sexuality headcanons