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there goes my heart beating (cause you are the reason) - AO3

“Sometimes,” Geralt says quietly, “I forget that you care.”

Jaskier looks up surprised and sees that Geralt is looking down at him with a small frown on his face. “Geralt,” Jaskier sighs, shaking his head fondly, “you foolish beef-brain. Of course I care.”

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I’ve been noticing a lot of actresses of color getting cast in roles traditionally played by or previously described as white women. And I see a lot of people arguing for or against this. I also think people are asking the wrong question.

To preface this, I want to say that the actual casting doesn’t matter to me. I don’t completely fit traditional Hollywood standards myself. As long as the actress fits the role, I couldn’t care less. But I am somewhat concerned about the intentions behind it. There are certainly exceptions to this, but a major trend right now is changing the leading woman to an actress of color, usually a black actress, and keeping the male leads white. Some famous examples of this are Percy and Annabeth in the Percy Jackson series, Alina and Kirigan in Shadow and Bone, Ariel and Eric in the latest Little Mermaid adaption, and, most recently, Hiccup and Astrid from the live-action How To Train Your Dragon.

I think it’s great that young girls of color have characters on screen they can relate to and look up to. So do young white boys, but that’s never been a problem. Young white girls still have plenty of examples outside of this trend. Tbh I think there’s a lack of representation for young boys of color, but I’ll save that for another time.

So, again, I’ve been asking myself why the big studios worth billions keep casting young women and girls of color in leading roles, inevitably sparking controversy. The good answer would be because they are committed to diversity, but for an industry so greedy, that, unfortunately, seems unlikely. When asking why the entertainment industry does anything, the answer is almost always money.

Controversy starts discussions. Any publicity is good publicity; the public will advertise for you, even if they’re spewing hate. And who’s more used to hate than women of color? They deal with the sexists and the racists. And a studio making white people feel threatened will always breed hate. My thinking is they are purposefully throwing these young women under the bus so that they can pat themselves on the back for being inclusive and get some free advertising. Women of color are taught that they need to be particularly grateful for these opportunities, and they have a responsibility to represent their intersectional demographic. So they take the hate, and don’t complain.

To be clear, I’m definitely not saying we should stop casting women of color in traditionally white roles - I’m quite excited to see Nico Parker in How to Train Your Dragon; I was blown away by her small yet powerful role in The Last of Us. I’m saying it’s crucial to examine why these decisions are being made, who benefits from fueling controversy, and who we point fingers at.

If you read all this - thank you so much. If you have any thing to add, I would love to hear it, just please remain kind and respectful.

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Apparently there's a live-action How To Train Your Dragon coming out next year and !!!! I can't do it!!! I'm sick of it all!!! Make some original content!!!!! We don't have to keep jerking off the dead corpses of successful franchises just to wank off an extra few bucks!!! Make original movies! Stop it with the spin-offs, the live-action-adaptations, the remakes and the reboots, the gritty cinema versions of video games, the 8-millionth insert of the MCU, stop it!!! I'm sick of it!!!!! Tell me about some guy named Grorrb you just made up and put in a situation!!! Have some originality, some creativity, put some fucking effort into your stories, for fucks sakeeeeeeeeeeeee plewaaa asseewhroofbqo we og9 v anro c b1lpcn1p04r9kb TA o1

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guys not to be dramatic or anything but have you noticed the ancient dread is getting harder and harder to bear

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Ao3 is trending but everything seems okay....

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me, logging into ao3 5 minutes before bedtime: WAITER! bring me your finest enemies to lovers!

ao3 tag search function: excellent choice, sir! how would you like it cooked?

me: explicit. with a side of hurt/comfort

ao3: lovely! and may i suggest a drizzle of mutual pining?

me: of course, and can you add a spritz of angst? make it a 100k slowburn for good measure

ao3: coming right up, sir

me: thank you. oh, and waiter?

ao3: yes, sir?

me: make it gay

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I’m both pro herbal medicine and pro vaccination because you can treat burns with aloe vera juice and sore throats with lavender infused honey but you can’t rid a country of polio with plants. 

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Self-care (bonus scene)

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AU with ghost and soap both being radio hosts at the same station, but soap works during the day and ghost the night, so they never properly cross paths.

but soap is often sleepless, so he’ll tune into ghost’s part of the show, the occasional commentary sprinkled between songs, far less than soap ever talks on shift. ghost’s voice is soothing in spite of its roughness, deep and calm it often lulls soap to sleep so he isn’t so miserable and reliant on caffeine when he wakes for work the next day.

and ghost who just doesn’t need so many hours of sleep to function, and is often awake during the day anyway because there’s no other way of getting certain things done, like his groceries and appointments, but always in need of background noise will listen in to soap’s segments. he’s charming, witty, and the scottish lilt has grown familiar enough to be pleasant.

out of the blue, they start leaving notes for each other. commentary based on something they heard the other say, recommending songs or topics for a rainy day. eventually, soap grows bold enough, and decides to leave his phone number—though it’s more than likely ghost could have gotten that information from the station himself. they begin texting in spite of their mostly opposite schedules, and while a friendship forms, they’ve still never once spoken to each other.

until one day, gaz—soap’s daytime shift partner—has to call out, and ghost offers to fill in, work the double shift. soap is pleasantly surprised that morning, and they end up getting on like a house fire both on and off air. it’s incredible. neither have them have laughed or smiled so hard in a while.

and though it is a one-off, they begin appearing at the station during the other’s shift, bringing food or off air company, just enjoying their shared presence. naturally a relationship blooms from there, and obviously it brings them both great joy a few years later to announce they’ll be off air for a week or two for the inevitable wedding and honeymoon.

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Read a soapghost fic that gave soap an echoic memory and it hasn't left my mind since

Like soap who knows too much for his own good. Soap who accidentally hears things that is way too classified for him to know and he has to be quiet about it.

Soap who voluntarily signed himself up for rigorous interrogation training after realizing how dangerous it was to know what he knows and at his rank.

Soap who remembers even the littlest things that were said in passing.

Soap who remembered ghost's birthday, and all the important dates that ghost has mentioned once, years ago. Soap who remembered that price once told him he doesn't like a specific brand of cigars, and he remembers. Soap who knows gaz's favorite number because he once whispered it under his breath.

Soap who knows cia level secrets that scare him half to death.

Soap who's afraid of accidentally saying something that he shouldn't have said because he's known it for so long that to him it feels like common knowledge, when really it was highly sensitive information

Soap who covers this fear up by constantly talking about himself even though it makes him seem arrogant

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*At a MacTavish family gathering*

Cousin: Wait wait- Ghost is a HUMAN??

Soap, confused: Yes??

Cousin: The way you were talking about him I thought he was a feral cat that you befriended

Soap:

Soap: Hold on, need to text my friend about this he’s going to die

(A week later)

Ghost: Why the fuck are you meowing at me?

Gaz: *immediately starts laughing*

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Price: Finally, my body is shutting down on me

Laswell: You coughed… like once

Price: *watches Ghost and Gaz beat the shit out of each other for the sole purpose of curing their boredom while Soap is dancing on the sidelines like a cheerleader (it is unclear who he is cheering for)*

Price: Let a man dream, Kate

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*141 regrouping after waiting for back up*

Gaz: God, waiting in a supply closet for three fucking hours by myself almost drove me insane

Soap: We had, uh, a pretty boring three hours, too…

Gaz: *looks at Soap before he looks at Ghost who avoids eye contact*

Gaz: No… you guys took it to pound town, didn’t you?

Ghost: Uh-

Gaz: Oh my fucking god, you did! You fucks were fucking!

Soap: Hold on-

*Price and Nik walk into view*

Price: Ready to go boys?

Gaz: Cap- Oh my fucking god- You too?!

Price & Nik: *visibly disheveled with bites on Price’s neck*

Gaz, pointing between Soap & Ghost and Price & Nik: YOU GUYS WENT TO POUND TOWN. AND I WAS STUCK IN A CLOSET. FOR THREE FUCKING HOURS!

Price: Kyle-

Gaz: THREE HOURS-

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Aside from being the base's resident expert demolitions specialist, he is also dubbed the unofficial fix-all for mechanical and maintenance problems.

The only thing is that in half the reports (bc they still have to be listed even if they were already fixed) the route of solution is listed as 'percussive maintenance'.

Which means, usually, that someone reports a problem, and sometime in the next hour or so anyone who walks by the area of which the problem lies will just hear banging and heavily accents curses. It works tho.

The reason nobody else can fix anything the way he does is because he simply knows WHERE to hit. He seems to have an eye for problem identification.

Ghost often abuses this fact while they're on leave (pre-relationship) by giving soap a call, to convince him over for a drink, and then subsequently fix the broken thing (soap is aware that he's doing this)

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Soap on a mission while Ghost is on leave, it leads him right near Ghost's flat, and he gets injured on said mission. He calls up Ghost all casually like-

"Hey, how's it?" And Ghost says fine. Boring. And soap goes "good to hear. So- listen, I'm in a bit of a pickle. I need you to come pick me up on the corner of[x street] and [y street], if you can't that's fine, tho."

And ghost is worried (rightfully so) like- "why, Johnny?" As he's grabbing the keys to his bike.

"Oh, nothin' much, bored, bleedin' a bit, I can deal with it if you're busy. So- what've you gotten up to without my charming character. Meet anyone?" Ghost can hear the eyebrow wiggle through the speaker on his phone

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Soap biting ghost bc cuteness aggression, qnd Ghost smacking him on the head to make him let go. Except the only thing it makes soap do is latch on harder