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airing out his royal balls as is his custom.
all men are the same, crown or not
that would’ve made a drunken Thor look proper indeed.
I love reading my husband’s name in books. Highly recommend marrying someone named after a Norse god
waiting for her to leave so I can let my body crumple onto the floor and cease to function as it desperately wants to do.
Felt this
“I took one of your tunics. Is that all right?” He says nothing for a moment. When he next speaks, I can hear the smile in his voice. “Which one did you take?” “The yellow linen with the stripes on it.” “Ah. Just my most costly summer piece, then.”
This is very marriage coded. I fear I do this to my husband on the daily
She yells right back, “When you die I will shit on your graves!”
what an icon
“It’s a strange god that must birth himself a second time,” Thrain rumbles. “Perhaps he knew he would not be entirely real until he was birthed by a woman.”
Thrain out here casually dismantling the patriarchy and theology in one sentence. Sir, that was both hot and philosophical. Birth me next.
“I do all manner of stupid things whilst being perfectly lucid, as you know.”
Me and Thrain are the same then
But God isn’t here, and the sight of that glistening fountain bursting forth has me riveted.
Reading Lyx Robinson feels like she carved the words straight into my skin—underrated doesn’t even begin to cover it.
“I tried to tell him,” Ivar says, throwing up a hand. “But does he ever listen to me? No. He doesn’t.”
I feel your pain Ivar. He's just the momma bear of the friend group
She is both things. The terrifying goddess and the uncertain, frightened girl. How can a woman manage to be both? How does she manage it in her head?
We are but multi faceted creatures
“Would it serve any purpose at all if I asked you to not bring it up all the time?” “No. I’m going to bring it up as much as I want. In fact I may compose a song about it.”
Ivar is my favorite-he reminds me of…me
“Where I’m from, no one holds back the beer from the pregnant women.”
And that would be why the infant mortality rate is so high
