MareAnguis
Recent bookmarks
-
the soul that seeketh him by bittybelle
Fandoms: The Locked Tomb Series | Gideon the Ninth Series - Tamsyn Muir
22 Feb 2023
Tags
Summary
People, it turns out, are horny for depression. Or maybe it’s that people are horny for depressed gods. Or maybe enduring betrayal on a literally cosmic scale makes people hotter. Or maybe the death drive is real, and the many-tongued abyss’s breath is still thick in your hair, and it makes everyone want to move closer and take a big, deep whiff. Or maybe you’re God, and they’re scared.
Or: John Gaius meets his daughter, remembers the women he left behind, and deals poorly with being the male god of a universe in which the divine is essentially feminine.
Bookmarked by MareAnguis
03 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
the soul that seeketh him
You lift the dead girl’s eyelid and find your own lost lights, frosted with death. Jesus. She’s the grandmother, the daughter, the holy ghost, and the soil they lived and died upon.
-
Tags
Summary
She’s fifteen years old and knows about the inherent human affinity to fall. She knows that everyone can be corrupted, even those who believe themselves corrupt already. Only purity has limitations; taint is infinite.
(Messed-up Ginny is messed up.)
-
Tags
Summary
This was why Hobbits did not leave the shelter of the Shire. The world outside was a Dark place where you would only starve and starve until you broke, until it would be all that remained, like in the Wandering Days, like in the Dark Days.
Bookmarked by MareAnguis
14 Sep 2025
-
Home Behind and Home Ahead by Etharei
Fandoms: The Hobbit (2012), The Hobbit - All Media Types, The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
11 Apr 2013
Tags
Summary
For as long as Frodo could remember, his beloved Uncle Bilbo was known around the Shire for his shocking habit of disappearing for long periods of time. Bilbo never told anybody where he was going or when he expected to be back, and didn't seem to care what other people thought of such disrespectable inconstancy.
- Language:
- English
- Words:
- 5,449
- Chapters:
- 1/1
- Collections:
- 1
- Comments:
- 120
- Kudos:
- 5,481
- Bookmarks:
- 1,192
- Hits:
- 46,376
Bookmarked by MareAnguis
14 Sep 2025
-
STATEMENT OF LOKI, ON DOING THE RIGHT THING AND ENDING UP ALONE REGARDLESS. by siIverbullet
Fandoms: Loki (TV 2021)
25 Nov 2023
Tags
Summary
What was it Sylvie said… “Do you think what makes a Loki a Loki is that we’re destined to lose?” Was she right?
Yes, and no.
Do you feel that you’ve lost?
I mean… You kind of did. You did the right thing. The selfless thing. You went out there, and you did it. You saved everyone! But you’re still alone at the end.It’s not that we’re destined to lose.
But what? You’re destined to always end up alone?
...Is that really it? No matter what you do—no matter how good you were or how many people you saved—this is how it’ll always end?Not always.
But nine times out of ten, it doesn’t matter how strongly you loved or how hard you clung to them. Out of a million variants, you, who sacrificed everything, drew the short straw. You, who sacrificed everything, still end up alone.
[...]
I am burdened… with glorious purpose.
The most powerful being in the universe—and also the most helpless.
Or, a conversation at the end of time about chance, choices, and every version of yourself that survived.
Bookmarked by MareAnguis
07 Sep 2025
Bookmarker's Notes
Then again, nobody wants to be here for the rest of their life either. I mean, it’s cool on paper. You’re the most powerful being in the universe. Keeper of Time and all that.
But what they don’t tell you is that it’s lonely. You’re stuck here, surrounded by everything that has ever and will ever happen, watching every version of your life—your brother’s life, your children’s lives, everyone’s—just flow on by. So in hindsight... yeah, maybe you would rather be a crocodile.