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Bless Me by Strange and Intoxicating -rsa- (strangeandintoxicating)
Fandoms: Final Fantasy XV
02 May 2017
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Kink Meme Fill.
Gladio's strength is proportional to how much skin he shows. The bros are in a pinch while fighting Titan and all seems lost... until Gladio rips his pants off and saves the day.
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24 May 2022
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At some point, I mostly gave up tagging. I always enjoy tagging everything, and as you can see, I made a valiant effort! But there's just a lot going on, a lot that happens, that eventually it got way too much to try tag it all, and it would start becoming completely meaningless anyways. But I tried, nonetheless, so now we have a ridiculously long tags list, whoops. Now, moving on...
THIS SERIES. No, no, let's first start with THIS AUTHOR. This author is probably my absolute favourite author. Their books are absolutely fantastic, yes, that is undeniable. But the way they WRITE, the absolute magic and marvel of it, THAT is what is so sublime. They write in a way that creates character in a way I've never seen, this depth, in a way where every word is necessary and important because it builds on the story, yes, but more importantly, on the world and the characters and their relationships. Not a word out of place, all of it necessary, and yet you could cut out whole parts of the story, scenes and sections, and technically, the story would remained untouched bc most of it is not actually strictly necessary for that. That may sound contradictory, but it certainly isn't. Because that's the thing, the story is good, yes, but its radiant brilliance comes from everything else. I can't fully explain it, but... they write so unpretentiously, and yet everything is filled with depth and tells you so much. It is not the kind of book that sounds like poetry, no fancy metaphors, no pretty words and phrases - these are things I love in writing and this author doesn't do that, but it's better because of that. It doesn't try to stand out, so you almost don't realise that it is the writing and not the story that is so fantastic. The story is amazing, sure, but the writing is what makes it so fantastic.
This isn't gore filled, fast and snappy action packed, gruesome and horrid acts, extremely explicit violence and also extremely explicit smut - none of that exists. A lot of authors use those scenes as tools to show a story, to show the grim realities of war, to show how strong a relationship is etc. There is nothing wrong with that, BUT! But. This author can write about war and love and family and everything and anything without those being the tools they use. They can write the emotions and feelings and show you everything they want to by telling you everything *surrounding* it, so that you KNOW and FEEL it more than you ever would have otherwise.
It also takes me much longer to read than most books, I deliberately end up reading it slower, because it's written less like a book and more like a storyteller. These sound synonymous but they're not. It's like someone is TELLING you a story, as opposed to there being a story that you are reading.
It's hard to explain, I probably sound slightly deranged, but all I can really say is that their writing is really really REALLY brilliant.
As a result, this series is phenomenal. I feel literally like I was given this as a gift, like I've been bestowed a blessing being able to read it, because I have, I really have. I am absolutely planning to reread this again at some point, probably multiple times. It's worth it. It's truly just so so brilliant.